Sensual Pleasure Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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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
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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
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés moves us…
— Umberto Eco
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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
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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
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Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
— Samuel Johnson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There is no sensual pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good man takes in doing good.
— Alone Boy
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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: