Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.
A sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing.
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.
...his lips were pure temptation, soft, bitable, sensual in a way only a man's mouth could be.
Acting has a strong sensual quality that I get such a... you say 'kick' in America? It's a fantastic profession in that way.
Fashion is instinctive and sensual. Learn to love what you wear. It should feel like eating chocolates...wi thout the calories
I will always admit immediately to what’s obvious, which is that homo sapiens is inherently erotic or sensual from birth.
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.
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual
Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.
you are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness.
Wine is a sensual pleasure. Its real value is when it splashes into the glass. It is not in the category of a Degas painting. The point is not for people to go to their cellar and stroke their bottles.
I'm very sensual and very rhythm-oriented and into poetry. Women can feel that.
You must put the odor of the human body into images describe for me the implacable, the egoistic, the sensual, the cruel there are nothing but disgusting people in this world.
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none
The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.
While wine may be only a drink, it is also one of the most complex sensory pleasures we enjoy. It is as cerebral as it is sensual, and it requires a lifetime to appreciate it.
There are women who are just extraordinary, who are smart and brilliant, sensual women in their 70s and even 80s!
This generation... they have a different attitude. Instead of sitting and watching something, they want to be a part of it - they're very hedonistic and sensual.
Women at my age they are making love, they are feeling sensual, they flirt, they have boyfriends, they have a sexual life. They are just not being represented in the movies.
I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.
In Tantric Buddhism our feeling is that there is no problem with the sensual world unless you have a tremendous attraction or aversion to it.
Skin bathed in summer sunset light is sultry and sublime. Every woman looks irresistible in its glow-relaxed and sensual.
To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.
Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.
Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.
Eating something with someone is the second most sensual and intimate thing you can do in life. The experience can't just be about consumption.
When I was a young kid at art school, I loved the sensual geometry of Poliakoff, which, of course, is inherent in my own work.
In France, older women are considered sensual, and they don't have to mask the lines and wrinkles and erase every sign of their life on earth to be attractive and get laid.
Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease.
I love sensual women like Beyonce who are very empowering and sexy at the same time, but if it's not what you want to do then you have to say no.
Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.
People tend to think of fairy tales as 'archetypal.' They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.
People tend to think of fairy tales as archetypal. They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.
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 censor board is my own heart and mind. Our audience can say that the women in my films are bold or sensual, but never, ever vulgar.
No scent is more sensual or more memorable to me than musk.
What resonates culturally with me about Japanese style is that it is very covered up but very sensual.
The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.
I love it when a woman is wearing Red Lipstick, and her hair is combed back, so sensual and confident.
The sensual experiences in life are not to be avoided. This is the philosophy of Tantric Buddhism - nor are they particularly to be sought after.
Women's bodies are curvy, sensual, it's about being happy to be a woman - and sexy is always good
All bronzes are made to be touched. Bronze is a sensual 'living' material. The sweat and oil of your palms adds to the patination.
For me a nude photograph should be erotic, not devoid of emotion. The body is a sensual thing, sensuality being one of its most beautiful and meaningful qualities.
I was referred to Mike Jones from the concierge at a Marriott hotel when I asked for a masseur... It was during the massage that it started to become sensual, and that led to him masturbating me.
I can be sweet-looking innocent girl, but I may have a sensual side to me, which I would love to explore.
Singing is a very sensual activity! You engage in it with all your senses and your heart.
The world we live in is not purely visual. For me it's totally poly-sensorial so the tactile, sensual aspect of living in the work that I do is brought to the fore.
Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual 20th century.
But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.
Don't indulge in careless behaviour. Don't be the friend of sensual pleasures. He who meditates attentively attains abundant joy.
I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and maternal.
Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.
Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.
Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.
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