Top 289 Erotic Quotes & Sayings

Pornographic or erotic stories and pictures are worse than filthy or polluted food. The body has defenses to rid itself of unwholesome food. With a few fatal exceptions, bad food will only make you sick but do no permanent harm. In contrast, a person who feasts upon filthy stories or pornographic or erotic pictures and literature records them in this marvelous retrieval system we call a brain. The brain won't vomit back filth. Once recorded, it will always remain subject to recall, flashing its perverted images across your mind and drawing you away from the wholesome things in life.

My works tends to be erotic.

What is erotic? The acrobatic play of the imagination. The sea of memories in which we bathe. The way we caress and worship things with our eyes. Our willingness to be stirred by the sight of the voluptuous. What is erotic is our passion for the liveliness of life.

But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.

When the theater is gothic it matches the sensibility of the show. It's also very intimate. The audience is very close to the performers. The show is scary and the scary stuff always works best with an intimacy with the audience. And the show is erotic, and I think erotic always works best when it's close to the audience, as well.

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

When I get too much rest, I'm usually erotic.

We know desire is rooted in absence and yearning. What you don't have is often ten times richer than what you actually experience. An affair is a perfect erotic plot because it fits the erotic equation of psychotherapist Jack Morin: "Attraction plus obstacle equals excitement.".

The female form is much more erotic than the male, who doesn't think that?

As you get older, you recognize the erotic nature of the vampire and the idea of the undead.

Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.

Erotic movies - they don't even make it anymore. Even the erotic magazines don't really look like the ones you could find in the '70s. You have much more extreme iconography of what is sexy. It's very cold. There's nothing that links to real life.

I'm more of an 'erotic clown,' it doesn't fall into the female category.

Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.

Children would only get in the way of our erotic lifestyle!

I love beautiful women. I love to show their personality, their sexuality. There's a fashion side to my erotic pictures: I love beautiful shoes and jewellery. But the erotic work I do is too daring and provocative for a fashion magazine. It's more fun, and if you have the right girl who likes it, more exciting, too. It's fashion photography, but with fewer clothes.

For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

Have you ever held a snake? Well, let me tell you, it is so erotic.

First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. & And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl.

All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.

Self-consciousness is the destroyer of erotic joy.

The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.

The kiss that you have never given is just as powerful as hours of actual lovemaking. The erotic isn't just what is happening between people's legs. It is also what's happening in their erotic mind.

In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.

Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-coming talent in the world of erotic fiction. [on Pleasures of the Night ]

I could bring you so much pleasure, erotic, erotic, put your hands all over my body.

There's more to the erotic life than explicitness.

I don't categorize myself as an 85-year-old woman who has written an erotic novel. I categorize myself as a writer who's written an erotic novel.

I think because of these big issues of life and death that maybe sex feels like a crass question. But for Christ sake, this is a book that is so interested in an elemental human condition. And one of the ideas about surrender is an erotic surrender, too. These folks are surrendered by destiny; they surrender to each other in certain moments, but there is a lot of erotic surrender.

David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .

Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no "erogenous zones" (a foolish expression, besides); it is intermittence, as psychoanalysis has so rightly stated, which is erotic: the intermittence of skin flashing between two articles of clothing (trousers and sweater), between two edges (the open-necked shirt, the glove and the sleeve); it is this flash itself which seduces, or rather: the staging of an appearance-as-disappearance.

Love is friendship with erotic moments.

A good nude photograph can be erotic, but certainly not sentimental or pornographic.

Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.

A meal can be an erotic experience in itself.

First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl.

There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.

Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

Women's underwear section it's like Narnia's wardrobe for my erotic delights.

Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.

It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.

Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?

Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms.

We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.

Shared laughter is erotic too.

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.

Because of this erotic bond, the earth becomes luxuriant in its every aspect.

I'm a very free woman, and maybe freedom is erotic in that way. Maybe it's conceived of as something dangerous, and dangerous - in that creative and wild way - is sensuous and erotic. For me it's more about making what I feel, but there's always a reason, a level of integrity and classical expression in what I do.

It's difficult for me to say, but I don't think the sex scenes are particularly erotic.

I can get incredibly erotic about blotting paper.

Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.

The most erotic zone is the imagination.

A TV evening with the right person can be more erotic than sex with the wrong one.

In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic, in his narratives is not a subject or a phrase, it is the clay of what they are made. In his novels every experience, trivial or extraordinary, breaths through the erotic.

My erotic poetry is not poetry that uses vernacular words. It is a very erotic poetry, but I never use anything, for example, that is not in the dictionary. I don't like to be ugly, I seek out what is beautiful, and if my great search is for freedom and beauty, I can't be vulgar, ordinary.

There is an important erotic element in A Thousand and One Nights, which is one of the keys to understanding the Orient.

All art is erotic.

Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?