Sensualist Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The philosopher says think your way out. The sensualist says play your way out but none of it works.

Billy Graham

#3. The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#4. I frequently look back at my life, searching for that fork in the road, trying to figure out where, exactly, I went bad and became a thrill-seeking, pleasure-hungry sensualist, always looking to shock, amuse, terrify and manipulate, seeking to fill that empty spot in my soul with something new.

Anthony Bourdain

#5. Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.

John Lancaster Spalding

#6. The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.

Jacques Barzun

#7. There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a hotel lobby.

Anne Rice

#8. I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.

Carla Gugino

#9. Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Walker Evans

#10. Between Don Quixote the mystic and Sancho Panza the sensualist there is no middle ground.

John Dos Passos

#11. You know Gabri, he wears his heart on his sleeve.' In fact, there were times Olivier wondered whether Gabri hadn't been born inside out.

Louise Penny

#12. I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.

Gwendoline Christie

#13. The days of my youth, as I look back on them; seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation can.

Vladimir Nabokov

#14. I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.

PJ Harvey

#15. When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.

Martin Parr

#16. A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.

Epicurus