Sensual Quotes - Page 3

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience.

For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.

If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be consumed for their sensual gratification; and thus they will destroy in their lust for enjoyment the property of future generations, of their own contemporaries, and indeed their very own capital.

The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts.

His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.

Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied... For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.

The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke.... glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run.

My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.

Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.

No scent is more sensual or more memorable to me than musk.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.

Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".

Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.

I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

A hint of sensual frustration roughened his voice. “And I will curse the gods along with them, Min. Some wild monsoon raged through me as I looked at you just now. It’s left me rearranged inside, and I don’t have a map.