(47 quotes found)
“Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”
“Mortal love is when sensuality is satisfied. True love is when love is sacrificed.”
David K. Leung
“Today, fashion is really about sensuality - how a woman feels on the inside. In the eighties women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies - they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.”
Donna Karan
“To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.”
James Arthur Baldwin
“These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.”
“We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.”
D.H. Lawrence
“The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.”
E. E. Cummings
“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality”
Leonardo da Vinci
“If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh”
Seneca