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Quotes About Voluptuousness

But I,' said Lymond, 'am one of the new apostles, seeking nothing but voluptuousness and human pleasures, and abusing the world.…
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.
~ Antonio Tabucchi
The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting French wines, then Spanish wines, then Italian wines.
~ Carole Bouquet
On est puceau de l'horreur comme on l'est de la volupté.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
something that I could call a lust for annoyance. The voluptuousness of annoyance
~ Machado de Assis
If you are evil, how can voluptuousness and debauchery be your enemies? Don't the world, the flesh, and the devil conspire equally against man?
~ Anne Rice
For one thing, she was quite astonishingly beautiful. Not at all in the common style, she was possessed of a thick mane of impossibly flame-colored hair, a tall, lush body of dangerous voluptuousness, and the warm, honey-colored eyes of a complete innocent. That red hair called to him, a siren lure, but he assumed it was only nostalgia and misplaced sentiment. Not that he'd ever been known to possess those two qualities.
~ Anne Stuart
El amor (perdóname) es un sentimiento que no he vuelto a experimentar desde entonces; se necesitan demasiadas virtudes para ser capaz de amar; me extraña que en mi infancia haya podido creer en un pasión tan vana, casi siempre engañosa y que no es necesaria ni siquiera para la voluptuosidad.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person, a little girl, I've been the crowds on the grand boulevards of the capital cities of the West, I've been the serene Buddha of the East, whose calm and wisdom we envy. I've known honor and dishonor, enthusiasm and exhaustion. ...I've been the sun and the moon, and everything because life is not enough.
~ Antonio Tabucchi
CreÅŸteÅ£i ÅŸi v? înmulÅ£iÅ£i» - porunc? într-un univers de slugi, deschise spre patima orizontal? ÅŸi incapabile de volupt??i f?r? t?v?liri.
~ Emil Cioran
The married woman who is the most chaste may be also the most voluptuous.
~ balzac honore de vii
In the violence of overcoming, in the disorder of my laughter and my sobbing, in the excess of raptures that shatter me, I seize on the similarity between a horror and a voluptuousness that goes beyond me, between an ultimate pain and an unbearable joy!
~ Georges Bataille
There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly.
~ Joseph Roth
No era feliz, no lo había sido nunca. ¿De dónde venía, pues, aquella insuficiencia, de la vida, aquella instantánea podredumbre de las cosas en que se apoyaba?[...]. Cada sonrisa disimulaba un bostezo de aburrimiento, cada alegría una maldición, cada placer su propio asco, y los mejores besos no dejaban sobre los labios más que un delirio irrealizable de una voluptuosidad más alta.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Contain yourselves from the ungoverned wildness of pride, the sluggish voluptuousness of luxury, and the false name of knowledge: that so the wild beasts may be tamed, the cattle broken to the yoke, the serpents, harmless.
~ St. Augustine
Solo alguien como yo que ha permanecido dos décadas inquieto, en eterna peregrinación sabe toda la voluptuosidad que encierra «vivir en el aire» como dice Beethoven, amigo del Azar y del encuentro eterno.
~ Stefan Zweig
There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive. And as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal till I could see in the moonlight the moisture Then lapped the white, sharp teeth. Lower and lower went her head. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited.
~ Bram Stoker
Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté, Luxe, calme et volupté.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food.
~ Victor Hugo
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Back then, eating was also a means of beautification, since the more aloo tikki and murukku you consumed, the more likely you'd reach a voluptuousness akin to an American size ten or twelve, required for looking good in a sari.
~ Padma Lakshmi
For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or take sympathy--even some of the bitter and dangerous voluptuousness of misery.
~ Jean Rhys
And I walk on a tightrope up to the edge of my dream. Guts tortured by voluptuousness guide me, fury of impulses. Before I organise myself, I must disorganize myself internally. To experience that first and fleeting primary state of freedom. Of the freedom to err, fall and get up again.
~ Clarice Lispector
Some women seem so voluptuous in every sense, richly bountiful and fertile with generous gifts of plenty, sensual and confident in their female strength that they are called "earth mothers." That's how some days feel —when they are bountiful and fertile with the power of our imagination.
~ Vera Nazarian