Sensual Pleasure Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than… — Mortimer Adler
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it… — Giacomo Casanova
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichÃ©s make us laugh but a hundred clichÃ©s moves us… — Umberto Eco
Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses it commonly works;… — Richard Baxter
The taste of chocolate is a sensual pleasure in itself, existing in the same world as sex... For myself, I can enjoy the wicked pleasure… — Ruth Westheimer
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. — Samuel Johnson
The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure… — Esa-Pekka Salonen
Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance,… — Gregory of Nazianzus
We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are… — Nhat Hanh
Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to… — Terry Riley
The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general… — Ian Mcewan
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things… — Voltaire
You must be mistaken," Isabel said, unconcerned by the insult that the words carried. "I assure you i am not. Voluptas is nearly always portrayed… — Sarah MacLean
To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible… — Bill Bryson
Did I feel a physical desire for him? I did. Was I moved by a passion of my body? I was. Have I experienced the… — Ayn Rand
There is no sensual pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good man takes in doing good. — Alone Boy
What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric… — John Kenneth Galbraith

Who Wrote These Sensual Pleasure Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 18 Sensual Pleasure Quotes as follows: