Top 100 The Erotic Quotes
#1. The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts hug or clasp; necklines plunge; jerseys bind. The word exciting tingles everywhere.
Mary McCarthy
#2. I find the erotic such a kernel within myself. When released from its intense and constrained pellet, it flows through and colors my life with a kind of energy that heightens and sensitizes and strengthens all my experience.
Audre Lorde
#3. Behold now the erotic demon that lives in my panties.
Matt Fraction
#4. The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested with wildly different cultural meanings, from the erotic to the spiritual, from the revolutionary to the artistic.
Rebecca Solnit
#5. Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.
Karl Kraus
#6. It is impossible to capture the essence of love in writing, only its symptoms remain, the erotic absorption, the huge disparity between the times together and the times apart, the sense of being excluded.
Edna O'Brien
#7. We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.
Audre Lorde
#8. After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both the brevity and casualness of Twitter, and wrote a series of tweets titled 'The Erotic Inner Life of Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey.'
Anthony Marra
#9. No bill of sexual rights can hold its own against the lawless, untamable landscape of the erotic imagination.
Daphne Merkin
#10. The exotic and the erotic ideals go hand in hand, and this fact also contributes another proof of a more or less obvious truth - that is, that a love of the exotic is usually an imaginative projection of a sexual desire.
Mario Praz
#11. The sexual is part of everything, and it's highly formalized. I hadn't done figure for a long time. And I thought to myself, "Why not the erotic figure?"
Claes Oldenburg
#12. Cloaked by the erotic darkness she exhausted the future quickly, with all the eventualities that might lead up to a kiss, but with the kiss itself as blurred as a kiss in pictures.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#13. The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling ...
Audre Lorde
#14. The erotic power was a natural aphrodisiac, and he suddenly understood what a rush edge play could be.
Claire Thompson
#15. Pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.
Audre Lorde
#16. Death's dry bones glowed with light in the erotic dark but he woke not nor felt the two warm bodies merge; the male worm then took heart and in his wife's ear whispered: With one sweet kiss, dear wife, we've conquered conquering Death!
Nikos Kazantzakis
#17. The erotic drive is the great energy that moves through all evolution.
What about love? Where does that fit in?
Love's simply the handmaiden of the great energy, and an excuse to write suspect poetry.
Peter Milligan
#18. The erotic arts have the same goal as religion; to prevent men from acting like beasts.
K. Ford K.
#19. There's more to the erotic life than explicitness.
Jess C. Scott
#20. In using the style of the erotic/pornographic story, I am interested in dismantling stereotypes of an essential feminine identity, particularly one of exclusive tenderness and passivity.
Barbara Degenevieve
#21. Erotic movies - they don't even make it anymore. Even the erotic magazines don't really look like the ones you could find in the '70s. You have much more extreme iconography of what is sexy. It's very cold. There's nothing that links to real life.
Gaspar Noe
#22. At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.
Marlene Dumas
#23. When I was editor of the Erotic Review I fielded endless phone calls from elderly readers who thought I might like to pop round in my spare time and thrash them
Rowan Pelling
#24. S/M is about emotion, the erotic tension between my impulse toward something and my resistance against it.
Virginia Baker
#25. Most of us will get turned on at night by the very same things that we will demonstrate against during the day - the erotic mind is not very politically correct.
Esther Perel
#26. Beauty lies between the erotic and the tragic.
Chloe Thurlow
#27. The erotic is not about nudity and nudity is rarely erotic. The erotic is subtle, a feeling, a gesture, a mood, a story frozen in the moment that holds you breathless waiting for the next moment. Understand this, and you understand the erotic.
Chloe Thurlow
#28. Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
Camille Paglia
#29. The social problem is that we haven't come up with any alternative models. Our culture hasn't developed an ars erotica. Think, for example, of conditions in India or in Japanese culture and of how the erotic has been cultivated there. They're not as clinical and rabbit-like as we are.
Volkmar Sigusch
#31. Nothing is better for "spiritual advancement" & the detachment of the flesh than a close reading of the "Erotic Dictionary.
Remy De Gourmont
#32. I can smell arousal, Talin. You get hot every time you see me half-naked."
The erotic need that flared through her body was mortifying. Perhaps that explained the stupidity of her next words. "Maybe I get that way for every half-naked man.
Nalini Singh
#33. Because the erotic frisson is such that the kiss that you only imagine giving,can be as powerful and as enchanting as hours of actual lovemaking. As Marcel Proust said, it's our imagination that is responsible for love, not the other person.
Esther Perel
#34. When I speak of the erotic, then, I speak of it as an assertion of the lifeforce of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.
Audre Lorde
#35. Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms.
Audre Lorde
#36. Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
Patricia Meyer Spacks
#37. I think it's common sense to shy away from the erotic. Perhaps this grand experiment, which started with Lady Chatterley's Lover, of seeing what you can write and how you can write about sex, has reached a certain weary terminus with Fifty Shades of Grey.
Richard Flanagan
#38. The interplay of the aesthetic with the erotic is complex. The peacock's tail is beautiful to us, sexy to the peahen. Beauty and sexual attractiveness overlap, coincide. They may be deeply related. I think they should not be confused.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#39. Pain is the erotic spice of sex. This wild, erratic thought flickers through my brain. And my Master is a Master Chef. What does that make me? Ah. I must be his edible, fuckable, artistic creation.
Nikki Sex
#40. I certainly had this fascination with monsters and vampires as did Tim and whatever this darkness, this mystery, this intrigue. And then, as you get older, you recognize the erotic nature of the vampire and the idea of the undead.
Johnny Depp
#41. In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic, in his narratives is not a subject or a phrase, it is the clay of what they are made. In his novels every experience, trivial or extraordinary, breaths through the erotic.
Alberto Manguel
#42. They say sex is all in the mind. That's not strictly true. Desire begins in the mind but is satisfied in the body. The erotic understands this. The erotic is the completion of a mental need played out on a physical playground. Once you go erotic you never go back.
Chloe Thurlow
#43. The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
Audre Lorde
#44. We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one.
Allan Bloom
#45. The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.
Katherine Anne Porter
#46. You wouldn't be here if you didn't care, Abby."
"I don't." She glared at him, so full of life she almost glowed.
"You do." He kissed the pouting lips lightly. "And I'm going to keep you.
Cherise Sinclair
#47. The thought went through my mind that we should film ourselves in our sexual act, and project our frenzied copulation permanently onto the walls of the tea-room, as a lesson to wake up the boring people who drank tea here, and to show them what life was really all about.
Fiona Thrust
#48. Erotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles- the trappings of religion- confuse as much as they help.
Stephen Batchelor
#49. The past is important. It is the past that helps make us who we are.
Elizabeth Morgan
#50. Evan Lucien, if it is my last act upon this Earth," he says, his eyes intense and shadowed in the lantern light, "I will make you come.
Lilly Black
#51. Then go get dressed for your Master,"Danny said with a slow,dark smile."The snake and Eve worked together,you and I will too. We'll make sure our Adam enjoys Eden before he leaves. We'll give himstrawberry so sweet it will sustain him through a whole, miserable lifetime of bland vanilla.
Kele Moon
#52. Xander and Ethan are sex gods ALL THE WAY. - Nonna8359
Scarlett Avery
#53. Men need to realize that women take longer to get aroused and satisfied - sometimes 6 -8 times longer. Make the journey pleasurable.
J.F. Kelly
#54. One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.
Maya Banks
#55. This was what humans fumbled for. This was what they quested for in the dark.
Brad Vance
#56. It was as if her body had lain dormant, waiting for the right man to come along and awaken her to her erotic potential.
Kitty Thomas
#57. He's a gazillionaire. I barely make expenses every month. He owns mansions all over the world; I co-rent a townhouse in Alexandria with my best friend. Women fall all over themselves to go out with him. I haven't had a date since forever.
Magda Alexander
#58. I couldn't hear anything or anyone, there was only the sound of our sex and the smell of books.
Juliet Gauvin
#59. The destruction of something beautiful can appear so entertaining.
Thomas Sweeney
#60. In the purest sensual and intimate act of lovemaking, there is a give and take, and both partners actively choose among and agree to the expressions. In reciprocal lovemaking, a woman is equally satisfied and drives the experience just as much as her man.
J.F. Kelly
#61. He pulls me into the steel of his chest. In between kissing me, he whispers, "You don't have to be jealous of them, you know. None of them hold a candle to you.
Magda Alexander
#62. I will be hating you a teensy bit the next time I see you and you've got that I-had-sex-with-a-god-glow.
Katie Reus
#63. The PA system in the classroom beeped. Echo pulled her hand away from mine, ending perhaps the most erotic moment of my life. I shifted in my seat, trying to find my damn mind.
Katie McGarry
#64. Right, I can't watch this shit." Kacey grunted as he got up. "It's one thing getting a hard-on over you, baby girl. The fact that Tyler happens to be in the picture ... I'm freaking slightly.
Elizabeth Morgan
#65. He stands watching me, motionless in those drawstring pants, his legs braced in a fighting stance, his eyes bursting with need. His broad shoulders jerk with his breaths, and he curls his fingers into fists at his sides. The deep roughness of his voice scrapes my flesh. Come here then.
Katy Evans
#66. You want to know what I'm going to do to you if you consent to playing with me tonight?" His hot breath tickled the shell of her ear. "Anything I want.
Shelly Bell
#67. ( ... ) before they actually admit to the big 'L' word. Love or lust - what's the big, damn deal? You're going to fuck either way, right?
C.M. Stunich
#68. Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?
Tyra Banks
#69. She's the most erotic thing I have ever encountered in my entire life. She moves, and I moan as her cries join mine.
Amelia Hutchins
#70. ... Turning the simple 'handjob' into something exquisitely erotic seems quite a reasonable goal."
Louise to Acacia, re her husbands immediate future, in Explicitly Sexy
Martin Rinehart
#71. I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all ...
Anais Nin
#72. I think that marijuana makes you stupid but sensual. I've watched many of my friends and loved ones become more erotic and dumber - just going around with a glazed expression on their faces from their last orgasms to the next - and found them really quite boring.
Timothy Leary
#73. I'm here for as long as you want me."
"What if that's forever?" He asked.
"Then I'm the luckiest girl in the world.
D.D. Prince
#74. The man was great, but no man was great enough to sever a friendship between her and one of her girls. Chicks before dicks, and all that.
Katee Robert
#75. She had to be brave enough to reveal the little girl inside who wondered the scariest question of all.
Am I good enough?
Jennifer Kacey
#76. KIM: I wanted to make it on my own.
KURT: You will. The problem is, sometimes you just need one person to put you in touch with the other. It's how it all starts.
Sam Crescent
#77. The feel of your skin, the flutter of your pulse when I touch you, the scent of your arousal are all incredibly beautiful and erotic. See yourself for what you are and revel in your beauty.
Evangeline Anderson
#78. Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.
Jean Genet
#79. She [Bernice] didn't like anything that had an adult theme, with only one exception, her collection of erotic female memorabilia. They were all antiques, fragments of other women's sexuality that was somehow easier to deal with than her own.
K. Ford K.
#80. 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.
Esther Perel
#81. A rubber doll with a microchip can imitate human flesh without human feeling. Porn leaves an emptiness inside. Erotica sets up a vibration in the mind that sends pulsing waves through the body.
Chloe Thurlow
#82. The story-tellers and spinners of erotic tales are hardly more than butchers who hang up meat attractive to flies.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#83. Inch by inch it's all a cinch, by the yard it's hard. Go for it
no matter how slow or long the process seems at first.
Mardi Ballou
#84. You're like the portrait," he says. "A vision of erotic beauty. But a portrait isn't flesh, and its beauty can't feel pleasure.
J. Kenner
#85. Luminet males had definite differences from human ones. They were taller, generally bigger, their bones were denser, but the really big difference was the ability to elongate their tongues. She'd heard about it even before Aeron, but actually feeling it...
Savannah Stuart
#86. As she shuffled back, he glanced down at the tent between his legs. Christ, that goddamn thing in there was huge; he looked like he had another arm in his pants.
J.R. Ward
#87. I like the sounds of words. Words are very enjoyable. I like words because they are ... seductive. And I like words because they can contain ... fantasies.
James Lusarde
#88. The thought I may never see her again streaks through me. The time's all wrong. We only have twenty minutes before we head out. But right now, I don't give a damn. I grab her and push her against the door. No time to do anything except in the most primal of ways. I kiss her hard...
Magda Alexander
#89. Everything about the man screamed danger, so, of course, I was drawn to him like a moth to a flame. Confidence radiated off of him in waves. I was immediately reminded of how you could tell a man made love by the way he danced.
Lora Ann
#90. A little insecurity in a submissive wasn't a bad thing, but her doubts shouldn't be whether the Dominant cared.
Cherise Sinclair
#91. I'm not a notch on a belt."
"You could never be a notch, London Chantelle. You're the whole belt, sugar.
Elizabeth SaFleur
#92. Lust, pure gorgeous lust: the sacred energy that elevates us, and makes us feel so special.
Fiona Thrust
#93. My nipples tightened as I breathed in his musky scent mixed with cologne. I didn't recognize the brand, but it spoke to something inside me. It whispered come closer, and my heart pounded harder.
Lori Toland
#94. ....what I'm really saying is that you knew, somewhere deep inside you knew that he wasn't the one for you. I've always wondered with people who get divorced if the wronged party hadn't seen it coming.
Jordan Silver
#95. I moaned and arched my body closer to his mouth, pressing his head down with both my hands in the same instant.
Cristina Rayne
#96. Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan Greene has woven from these threads a riveting novel, erotic, haunting, and profoundly moving.
Janette Turner Hospital
#98. Forsaking all other thoughts, he rutted into her, in a fashion more animal than human. His eruption he held fast within, so that she squirmed against the sensation before accepting her own fall into oblivion, her walls pulsing to an echoing rhythm.
from The Gentlemen's Club
Emmanuelle De Maupassant
#99. All men are dogs, Nichelle, and if you don't feed your dog, you can't be surprised when he's in the neighbor's trash looking for food.
Norian F. Love
#100. Look at me, sugar." She lifted her eyes, and he wiped away the tear that spilled over. "I could tell you what I do and don't do, but you wouldn't believe a word I said. So let's get this over with.
Cherise Sinclair
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