Quotessence
Home / Topics / Erotic Quotes

Erotic Quotes

Browse 458 quotes about Erotic.

Related topics

ThinkingPeopleSexMenIfsErotic LoveFeelingsKnowsArtBodyKindSensualWantWorldDesireHas BeensMalesMayNovelSexyTwoWayBookLove IsMadeMindNeedsNightSpiritualWritingArt IsFantasyFormGivingIdeasImaginationLyingPleasureWells

Erotic Quotes

“Two of the great leaders of the past - Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass - had White fathers - who deserted them. Now Margo Jefferson, who is hard on me and the fellas, wrote in the Times that she has nocturnal, erotic fantasies about John Wayne. What's up with these feminists? Do you see these double standards these feminists have? They dream about John Wayne, but they're hard on us [Black men].”

MenTwoHardDreamPastFatherBlackWhiteLeaderFantasyStandardsFeministEroticGreat LeaderWayneDouble StandardDesertedFellasNocturnal
Author:Ishmael Reed
Create image

“I began to think about the extent to which nude and semi-nude female bodies are commonplace in our present day culture and how young girls might be affected. I wondered if, at some point, this bombardment of images could possibly get boring and that concealing - rather than revealing - would awaken sexual desire. I don't think that will ever be the case, of course, but I was intrigued to write a poem in which dressing was just as erotic as undressing.”

IfsThinkingWritingBodyMightYoungDesireCultureGirlCoursesCasesFemaleBoringAffectedDressingsEroticRevealingCommonplaceIntriguedPresent DayConcealingFemale BodySexual DesireUndressing
Author:Denise Duhamel
Create image

“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.”

ThinkingFeelsHumansBookIdeasMomentsBigsCertainSexChristDestinyIssuesConditionsSakeFolksSurrenderLife And DeathHuman ConditionEroticElementalsCrassThis Is A Book
Author:Chang-Rae Lee
Create image

“There's a disciplined erotic component to it, so that the height of sexual contact is the embrace, the modest touch, a relatively chaste kiss. An important passage from the surviving 1942 diary (one I quote in the book) relates this mode of sexual expression to his own life. Mann had returned to his diary for 1927 (one of those he burned) and to his parting from the young man, Klaus Heuser, whom the family had met on holiday and invited to Munich.”

MenImportantBookYoungExpressionMetsKissingEmbraceContactRelateHeightYoung ManHolidayPassagesBurnedModestInvitedComponentsEroticSurvivingDiariesPartingChasteMunich
Author:Philip Kitcher
Create image

“For more than a year, he'd felt destined to marry Isabel Arundell; now, suddenly, he wasn't so sure. He loved her, that was certain, but he also resented her. He loved her strength and practicality but resented her overbearing personality and tendency to do things on his behalf without consulting him first; loved that she tolerated his interest in all things exotic and erotic but hated her blinkered Catholicism. Charles Darwin had killed God but she and her family, like so many others, still clung to the delusion.”

YearsFirstsStillsCertainFeltInterestPersonalityAll ThingsAtheistTendenciesHatedDelusionCatholicismFirst LoveDestinedBehalfEroticExoticConsultingPracticalityOverbearing
Author:Mark Hodder
Create image

“I want to engage people in an honest, enlightened, and provocative conversation about the nature of erotic desire and the intricacies of intimacy and sexuality. The object of my game is to bring nonjudgmental, multicultural understanding to the challenges and choices of modern relationships.”

PeopleWantDesireChoicesGamesUnderstandingChallengesModernHonestObjectsConversationSexualityIntimacyEnlightenedEroticProvocativeMulticulturalIntricacy
Author:Esther Perel
Create image

“Do we now fight for the kind of passionate belief that I have about sexuality, about the importance of the erotic, of people actually getting to fulfill desire and not be punished because they have it? No, we're nowhere near close to that. We're dealing with an AIDS epidemic that continues out of control globally and in this country, NO, THIS IS NOT the movement that I am fighting to create. Has it succeeded in places that are very significant? Yes it has - and it would be foolish to say that those things don't matter.”

PeopleKindCountryMatterWould BeDesireFightingBeliefMovementImportancePassionateSexualityAidsFoolishSignificantEroticEpidemicsAids Epidemic
Author:Amber Hollibaugh
Create image

“Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how deliciously self-destructive it would be, almost erotic, to be married to a man so nearly handsome, so hugely rich, so unfathomably stupid. He would fill her with his big-faced children, all of them loud, boneheaded boys with a passion for guns and football and aeroplanes.”

MenFirstsChildrenSelfBigsWould BePassionFeltBoysRichMinutesStupidFootballMarriedGunLoudPleasantDestructiveSensationsStomachHandsomeEroticBeing MarriedDeliverySinkingAeroplanesSelf Destructive
Author:Ian Mcewan
Create image

“The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at home at night. They do not keep awake 'till three, Nor read erotic poetry. They never sanction the impure, Nor recognize an overture. They shrink from powders and from paints... So far I've had no complaints.”

MenGivingHomeLightNightThreeHeardHumorousPaintAdmireAwakeWickedCandleComplaintsEroticShrinksSanctionsPowderStay At HomeLadies Man
Book:Not So Deep as a Well
Create image

“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.”

TwoBodyPleasureExpressionSkinsEdgesAppearanceFoolishShirtsRealmsZoneArticlesClothingsPortionsFlashEroticGarmentsPsychoanalysisSleevesGlovesSeducingSweatersPerversionDisappearanceTrousersStaging
Author:Roland Barthes
Create image

“The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not seem so to Freud, who wrote that as a boy he once had an erotic reaction to watching his mother dressing. But Freud had a wet-nurse, and may not have experienced the early intimacy that would have tipped off his perceptual system that Mrs. Freud was his mother. The Westermarck theory has out-Freuded Freud.”

MenWantMayIdeasSeemsMotherSleepBoysHeardTheoryStrikesReactionsIntimacyNurseWetDressingsEroticWant To Sleep
Book:How the Mind Works
Create image

“She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience.”

LoveLongMomentsAgeLastsChoicesCoursesMagicColorRegretOffersHusbandFinalsLustChosenFaithfulSunsetFeminineCrucialLong AgoLast TimeCompassEroticUrgentFidelityNeedlesGlowingResignationHer Beauty
Author:Stefan Zweig
Create image

“He was, like everyone of a strongly erotic disposition, twice as good, twice as much himself when he knew that women liked him, just as many actors find their most ardent vein when they sense that they have cast their spell over the audience, the breathing mass of spectators before them.”

ActorsAudienceMassCastsBreathingSpellsDispositionVeinsEroticSpectatorsArdent
Book:The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past
Create image

“Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real sexual encounter could ever match the secret one that he could nurture in his imagination... No living flesh could ever be the erotic equal of flesh kept private, untouchable and unknowable”

KnowsMadeRealBeautifulImaginationSecretMysteryEqualFleshEncountersNurtureEroticUntouchables
Author:Ben Elton
Create image

“This gown, is it cut from shadow?" the general asked. "I can barely feel it between my fingers." Not for want of trying, thought Madrigal. "Perhaps it is a reflection of the night sky," he suggested, "skimmed from a pond?" She supposed that he was being poetic. erotic, even. In return, as unerotically as possible- more like complaining of a stain that wouldn't come out-she said, "Yes, my lord. I went for a dip, and the reflection clung.”

WantFeelsTryingSaidI CanNightLordCuttingSkyReturnReflectionShadowFingersComplainingPoeticEroticStainsPondsNight SkyGownsDip
Book:The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy
Create image