Anticipation Quote by Nicole Miller

The more closely we analyze what we consider 'sexy,' the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience…

— Alain de Botton

Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of…

— Georges Bataille

Erotic longing is really a longing to merge with something greater than oneself. For every kind of love is a force that holds the…

— Julianne Davidow

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.

— Audre Lorde

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

“The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, the…

— Audre Lorde

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

— Paulo Coelho

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

— Jane Smiley

[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

— Gloria Steinem

We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a…

— Audre Lorde

Since the point of erotica is to offer the consumer sexual experiences without having to compromise with the demands of the other sex, it…

— Steven Pinker

Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.

— Vera Nazarian