Sensuous Quotes

72 Sensuous quotes by 62 unique authors

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was… — Saint Augustine
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace. — Kate Chopin
I feel sexy because I feel loved. That's what sexy is-it's feeling good from the inside. When you feel sexy or sensuous, you naturally want… — Demi Moore
At one point I was introduced to a devastatingly handsome young man -- beautiful, really -- with black unruly hair, large sensitive eyes fringed by… — Janet Leigh
If you saw me with my clothes off you'd see that my body is in great shape and ready to take on the world.... I… — Anna Kournikova
In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction. — Peter Zumthor
Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all… — Plato
Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness. — F. R. Leavis
If a girl wears a shirt and a skirt, does she become more sensuous? I think a girl in a sari is more sensuous than… — Bipasha Basu
Rather let us imagine the anima mundi as that particular soul-spark, that seminal image, which offers itself through each thing in its visible form. Then… — James Hillman
Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies. — Johann Georg Hamann
And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from… — Friedrich Schleiermacher
I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day… — Aaron Spelling
The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own… — Kate Chopin
Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216 — Fatema Mernissi
It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the… — John Zerzan
After half an hour the drug hit me like a sensuous tidal wave. I turned into a tactile temptress and wanted to stroke the whole… — Boy George
No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is any event entirely… — David Abram
Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising, memorable, and light. — Ken Macrorie
Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and… — John Milton
All the sleepers in a night of delution beholding so many dreams. In this world of darkness, only those who sever themselves from the meterial… — Tulsidas
A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Can one, seeing the sun with one's sensuous eyes, not rejoice? But how much more joyful it is when the mind sees with its inner… — Seraphim of Sarov
Try vegetarianism and you will be surprised: meditation becomes far easier. Love becomes more subtle, loses its grossness - becomes more sensitive but less sensuous,… — Rajneesh
Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles,… — Martina Navratilova

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