#sensuality

So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#making-love #pleasure #respect #sensuality #sex

There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can! ↗

— Jody Watley

#beauty #black #celebrated #change #culture

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#back #heroes #live #momentum #narrow

Carnal love: a practical man’s love. A love you can see, touch, and taste if you’re kinky. If you can’t hear it, you’re probably better suited to its more abstract form. ↗

— Bauvard

#love #practicality #sensuality #funny

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

— Sally Kirkland

#always #attitude #enthusiasm #expression #kind

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch? ↗

— Lara St. John

#cannot #classical #classical music #energy #epitome

The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#afraid #company #feared #getting #girl

No words. Just my finger pointing in silence. My finger silently saying, ’Unwrap me, darling. ↗

— James Lusarde

#love-making #men-and-women-in-love #relationships #romance #seduction

Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#passion #sensuality #words #love

Love falls in love with love; comes like an echo sounding back, searches its mirrored shadow within a look. ↗

— Mocco Wollert

#lovers #loving-words #of-loving #relationships #sensuality