Desire Quote by K. Kiker

Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they…

— Audre Lorde

“We must have imagination, awakened by the uncertainty of being able to attain our object, to create a goal which hides our other goal…

— Marcel Proust

“All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.”

— Sherri L. King

“. . . [O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our…

— Audre Lorde

“This means that shame monitors excitement and pleasure. Nature has made the sexual experience the most exciting and pleasurable of all our experiences. Nature…

— John Bradshaw

“But when we begin to live from within outward, in touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves, and allowing that power to…

— Audre Lorde

“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

“In our minds we can proceed without hesitation to the place we might never go in our own lives. There is an opportunity to…

— K. Kiker

“Erotic pleasure, derived from the most intimate physical contact, thrives on the paradox that only by keeping alive the strangeness of that other person…

— Siri Hustvedt

The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of eroticism, a…

— Anais Nin

The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of…

— Audre Lorde

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

— Victor Hugo