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Quotes About Touching

I equate love (bodies touching indecently) to the limitlessness of being – to nausea, to the sun, and to death.
~ Georges Bataille
I equate love (bodies touching indecently) to the limitlessness of being – to nausea, to the sun, and to death. —Georges Bataille, from "La Scissiparié," Oeuvres Completes III . (Editions Flammarion July 27, 1984) Originally published in Les Cahiers de la Pléiade, Spring 1949.
~ Georges Bataille
Australasian's custom of speaking of England as home. It was always pretty to hear it, and often it was said in an unconsciously caressing way that made it touching; in a way which transmuted a sentiment into an embodiment, and made one seem to see Australasia as a young girl stroking mother England's old gray head.
~ Mark Twain
The tomb of Adam! How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home, and friends, and all who cared for me, thus to discover the grave of a blood relation.
~ Mark Twain
kind. It was the most singular, and almost the most touching and melancholy exile that fancy can imagine.—One of
~ Mark Twain
am greatly touched by the extreme kindness of yr offer & the willing sacrifice that it involves. It is a splendid proof of yr friendship. I cd not accept it from you. I want you to enjoy
~ Martin Gilbert
...a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
For adults, the biggest rush of oxytocin - other than giving birth and nursing - comes from sex. Sexual activity, especially if it includes cuddling, extended touching, and orgasms, turns on many of the same circuits that are used to bond infants and parents. It's no wonder that childhood attachment styles persist in adulthood: The whole attachment system persists.
~ Jonathan Haidt
They huddle in the marshes and woods, hiding like prey from the wind and the sun. We live with our tails touching the sky.
~ Erin Hunter
I believe in reflecting honesty and reflecting reality in my music and making music that touches people emotionally - music that can bring us together.
~ Goapele
On every point of general literature he displays unbounded knowledge, and a quick and piercing apprehension. His eloquence is forcible and touching;
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Vincent looked to images not just to be instructed and inspired, but, most of all, to be moved. Art should be "personal and intimate," he said, and concern itself with "what touches us as human beings.
~ Steven Naifeh
Love is touching souls.
~ Joni Mitchell
This hypothetical person I have never met who didn't want to threaten a tarantula should stop moving their hand around," Yuri said urgently. "But…it's…touching…meeeeee.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
My brother and I were then longing for a new life, we dreamt about something enormous, about everything beautiful and sublime; such touching words with and still fresh, and a third without irony.
~ Joseph Frank
Everything is made through images. They enter us through all the other senses, as through the eye. An echo (they say) is an image of the voice. All our affections are produced by images of touching. Our whole body is a mirror.
~ Joseph Joubert
People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and that's been very moving. We're enormously grateful to the fans of the show. They've been extremely loyal to us season after season, and they make it all worthwhile.
~ Roma Downey
The condition of the wounded touched my heart deeply.
~ Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
I like to make people laugh. That's for sure. And I really like to humiliate myself and go very far in derision and stuff. But no, I like everything. I started a little bit of doing drama, too. I like that, too. I guess I just want to touch everything.
~ Charlotte Le Bon
Everyone at home is so supportive. People recognise me, say how proud they are of me. It's awesome to hear, it's amazing to know I can touch so many people in a positive way.
~ Kirsty Coventry
Some shows just go away - and that's fine. They serve their purpose and their entertainment value, but there are shows that touch people in different ways and that they remember.
~ Michael Cudlitz
I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.
~ Liam Neeson
The storyline has always been of paramount importance to me. The subject and climax of 'Phillauri' touched my heart.
~ Diljit Dosanjh