Sensualism Quotes & Sayings

Keats, it must be remembered, was a sensualist. His poems ... reveal him as a man not altogether free from the vulgarities of sensualism, as well as one who was able to transmute it into perfect literature. — Robert Wilson Lynd

I don't think anyone's made a videogame yet that is me as the target audience. — Samaire Armstrong

We've arrived at another of those doors." There was a sliding door let — Douglas Adams

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. — Winston S. Churchill

We still need to secure our southern border. The other thing I would say is we need to secure who visits us in the country. — Rand Paul

Giving tithes alone is not enough for financial prosperity. — Sunday Adelaja

He wasn't always trying to say witty things, and when he did say them, he felt no need to repeat them for changing company. — Richard Russo

Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded into three-dimensional space. — Gunter Brus

I would love to do orange and lemon trees silhouetted against the blue sea, but I cannot find them the way I want them. — Claude Monet

A man who needs the unusual to make him "wonder" shows that he has lost the capacity to find the true answer to the wonder of being. The itch for sensation, even though disguised in the mask of Boheme, is a sure indication of a bourgeois mind and a deadened sense of wonder. — Josef Pieper

I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor. — Sydney Pollack

Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Confident is a spirit of faith — Lailah Gifty Akita

Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire. — Gautama Buddha

I realized I'd never asked him about his major. Probably wasn't time travel.I didn't think our local college was quite that progressive. — Myra McEntire

There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn't made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn't yet. — Kami Garcia

Laughed with him over black coffee, cried with him over yellowing pictures, talked greenly about having kids of her own, — Jonathan Safran Foer