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Quotes About Touch

So I took her hand, and I don't know what everybody else heard, but to me it sounded like a slow dance: a little sad, but maybe a little hopeful, too.
~ Rick Riordan
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
~ Kate Chopin
with the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched...
~ Katherine Anne Porter
Why am I begging you, who parades your suffering over the ruins like a king in order to ensure that you will never be touched deeply, you who're always laughing.
~ Kathy Acker
Normal.Un cuvant atat de simplu,banal.Ciudat cum stralucea acum,ca un inel de alama pe un carusel, sclipind de promisiuni,atat de aproape,dar cu neputinta de atins.
~ Kelley Armstrong
him like a mild electric shock. No woman outside his family had touched him for two years.
~ Ken Follett
Kindness has a mysterious power which can transcend and transform anything it touches.
~ Debasish Mridha
Fingers interlocked like a beautiful accordion of flesh or a zipper of prayer
~ Sarah Kay
Prayer to be fruitful must come from the heart and must be able to touch the heart of God.
~ Mother Teresa
Let some word reach my ears and touch my heart
~ William Morris
Paddling palms and pinching fingers.
~ William Shakespeare
Our Story" Remind me again—together we trace our strange journey, find each other, come on laughing. Some time we'll cross where life ends. We'll both look back as far as forever, that first day. I'll touch you—a new world then. Stars will move a different way. We'll both end. We'll both begin. Remind me again.
~ William Stafford
Your body falling through space touches the deepest part of me.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
Ibland sätter jag händerna mot väggen och försöker föreställa mig hur det är utanför. Jag tänker att det kanske kan gå att uppfatta någonting genom händernas beröring med väggen. Sådant som vindriktning, kyla, fukt, platsen du är på, vattnets porlande floden. Men det går aldrig. Väggen är bara en vägg. Det finns ingenting bakom den, den är inte sammankopplad med någonting.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
The evening sky seemed so close you could touch it, and at that moment, as if they had been awaiting our arrival, the lights came on. The stadium looked like a spaceship descended from the heavens.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
The shirts of the referee and his touch judges, as if to confirm everything that crowds have ever suspected about match officials, carry the legend Specsavers.)
~ David McKie
Their lips touched now, mouths pursed tight, their eyes open, both of them stock still. The moment held, a kind of such glorious confusion.
~ David Nicholls
It is difficult to imagine a stream that flows two directions at the same time, but this is just what the nervous system does. The failure to sufficiently appreciate this unity of seeming opposites leads us into separating too absolutely afferent from efferent, sensation from behavior, attitude from activity. And this leads us in turn into forgetting how powerfully touch, sensation, continually alters internal conditions and overt behavior.
~ Deane Juhan
I never heard sound and thrill of my painful heart until that very day she touched it.
~ Santosh Kalwar
Kindness is the touch of an angel's hand.
~ James Leonard Gordon
All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.
~ Freya Stark
How many faces, how many bodies can you recognize, with your eyes closed, only by touching them? Have you ever closed your eyes and acted unconsciously? Or loved someone so blindly, you could almost feel their energy in a dark room and be moved by the powerful touch of their ideas?
~ Jean Baudrillard
je toucherais le corps d'un chêne.
~ Jean Giono
The little girl's gentle touch struck an inner chord in his lonely old heart.
~ Jean M. Auel