Affiliation Quote by Stephanie Mills

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.

— Anonymous

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

Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length…

— Washington Irving

There is a universal urge for intimacy, for trading subjectivities, in communication. For Telepathy. Our desire for it tells us about what we wish…

— David Porush

“For the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel…

— Audre Lorde

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

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

Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its…

— Thomas Aquinas

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were…

— C. S. Lewis

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

No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.

— Karen Tei Yamashita

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

— Audre Lorde