Body Quote by ContraPoints

As individuals, we don't sometimes let ourselves enjoy things that we possibly should because of ways you want to be perceived, which is a…

— Alun Wyn Jones

“Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have.”

— John Steinbeck

We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.

— Ovid

“The human erotic imagination is a vast wilderness of sexual possibilities. We are each capable of enjoying a pleasurable, satisfying and potentially ecstatic sex…

— Chris Maxwell Rose

We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature,…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. Follow nature and not fashion: weigh the present enjoyment of…

— Earl of Chesterfield

“I am one of those persons who, when sexually immersed, require serious silence, the hush of impeccable concentration. Perhaps it is due to my…

— Truman Capote

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.

— Anonymous

“Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being. Who knows but that which seems omitted…

— Kahlil Gibran

“Sexual expression is so powerful a way of bonding with others and so devastating a way of hurting others that it can never be…

— Rachel Adler

It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within our reach.

— Cynthia Rylant