Top 385 Sensual Quotes & Sayings

The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it.

I love sensual materials like silk or cashmere.

Money is sensual.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Rhyannon Byrd has a gift for beautiful, sensual storytelling.

Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious bliss. We see textures, volumes, equilibrium - and reality, open and ragged, is lost and transcended.

We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.

I think it's often easier to theorize in the official codes of theory rather than to theorize lightly through scene, object, story, and incident in ways that keeps alive the sensual serendipities of language. This is not a question of being for or against theory, but rather of being suspicious of orthodoxies that concede, in advance, that what passes for theory must be signaled by a narrowing of diction, sentence rhythms, and sensual awareness. I'm in favor of surprise.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

Service is a prerequisite for anything relating to luxury. That makes it (shopping) sensual and pleasurable.

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

I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to know the momentary fact about things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual, it's sensual, it's alive. My idea of living sensual facts are you, a home, a country, a world, a universe, in that order.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

It was a joy to do something sensual and sexy. It was exciting. I don't get many of those types of roles.

When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

Smell is incredibly important and sensual; it communicates who you are.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he's materialistic.

Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.

On stage, I wear my 'uniform' - my all white and flowy suit. It makes me feel 'in-my-body' and sensual.

Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance, or else involuntarily as a result of some salutary and providential reversal. 'For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged; but when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, so that we should not be condemned with the world.' (1 Cor. 11:31-32).

Just besides how smart Aaron Sorkin stuff is, really, is how visceral it is, how sensual it is. Not sexual, sensual. Always tactile. When you read his scripts, the scripts read fast and the words almost jump off the page.

The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well that we no longer seek it as an end in itself. We no longer expect the sensory world to satisfy us. We no longer demand that sensory consciousness be anything other than an existing condition that we can use skillfully according to time and place.

Fasting is as sensual as eating. Being celibate is as sensual as having sex. They're just different choices, different videos that you've selected to view tonight.

I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.

My approach has always been rather sensual.

To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.

I thought make-up was a very sensual thing.

Wood is very warm and sensual and meant to be touched.

I have played innocent characters that are inherently me, but I have a sensual side, too.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Be passionate. Generate the magnetic power of eros through sensual, mental, and spiritual delight.

Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

It's a very thin line between looking sensual and vulgar.

Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!

Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual, physically beautiful place.

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.

For me, electronic music is like cooking: it's a sensual organic activity where you can mix ingredients.

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

Evil is the radiation of the human consciousness in certain transitional positions. It is not actually the sensual world that is amere appearance; what is so is the evil of it, which, admittedly, is what constitutes the sensual world in our eyes.

There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. ... There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires.

History is my passion. So I write what I love to read. I find that if I combine history with a strong, sensual romance, it is like a one-two punch. The reader doesn't want the history without the romance, and of course the heavier the history, the more it has to be leavened with a sensual, all-consuming love story.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

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

He smiled, so sensual and beautiful, it was another form of bliss just looking at him.

Bengali women have a lot of sensual appeal.

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

I believe very much in sensual powers as a means of obtaining understanding.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.

Making pizza is a great job. All that kneading the dough - everything to do with cooking is wonderful, sensual.

Sensual is being in tune with your sensual self.

It's nice to be thought of as soft and sensual.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Romanian is a very beautiful, sensual, poetic language.

The Arabic music I listen to is extremely edgy. Ironic, sarcastic, sensual, erotic.