#sensual

Yes, the essence of every love is a child, and it makes no difference at all whether it has ever actually been conceived or born. In the algebra of love a child is the symbol of the magical sum of two beings. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#literary-fiction #sensual #love

A single smile from her could make his entire being burn. One touch from her hand and he was undone. It was terrifying to think of how much power this one person had over him. How one single gesture from her could affect him so profoundly. (Sin thinking about Kat) ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#love #power-of-love #scared #sensual #love

We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone. ↗

— James D. Houston

#attractions #away #been #everything #fundamental

The priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away into a languid ecstasy of reverie. She communicated her own enthusiasm to the girl, and kept her mind occupied with dreams, faery-fervid, of uncharted seas of glory on which her galleon might sail, undiscovered countries of spice and sweetness, Eldorado and Utopia and the City of God. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#love #sensual #women #beauty

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#christianity #love #sensuality #spirituality #love

If he was like any of his music, he would be complex, explosive, sweet, sensual, and passionate. ↗

— Kailin Gow

#contemporary-fiction-music #erotica-romance #kailin-gow #sensuality #the-protege

Could it be, as one writer puts it, that every knock at the door of a brothel is actually a knock at the heart of God? ↗

— Randy Elrod

#sensuality #sexuality #spirituality #religion

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. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#desire #form #love #lust #only

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 A. Baldwin

#does #effort #force #i #i think

How can any woman not enjoy that? We're sensual beings, we love that. ↗

— James Lusarde

#sensuality #love