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Quotes About Touch

We readily think of stressors as consisting of various unpleasant things that can be done to an organism. Sometimes a stressor can be the failure to provide something essential, and the absence of touch is seemingly one of the most marked developmental stressors that we can suffer.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
Augen sind Hände, die man lebenslang nicht wäscht; so behalten sie die schmutzige Gewohnheit, alles anzurühren.
~ Robert Musil
Er fühlte einen unsäglichen Widerwillen, mit diesen Resten seiner selbst in Berührung zu kommen.
~ Robert Musil
Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Once in the night she wakened and a flood of desolation poured over her. But in the darkness she heard a melodious purring and felt the beautiful touch of a velvet cat.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Usted sabe que si tenemos en nosotros cualquier cosa que nos duele, tratamos de evitar que nadie se acerque y la toque. Creo que esta explicación funciona también con el alma, no solo con nuestros cuerpos
~ L.M. Montgomery
People experience the life-changing force of healing relationships when something powerful comes out of one and touches something good in another.
~ Larry Crabb
What's the point of obsessing over cholesterol or bike helmets or even cigarettes when the biggest threats to our children are being released back into society every day? Yes, maybe 'some' of them have reformed, but what about the ones who haven't? Doesn't anyone realize that one 'touch', one 'time' will destroy a child's life ten times faster than a pack-a-day habit?
~ Laura Wiess
There are pains too deep for words, but there's touch to say what words can't.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Patting someone's hand, or shoulder, a hug, all of it is necessary to be happy and healthy for most people. It doesn't have to have anything to do with sex; in fact, most of the touch that keeps us all going is as innocent as a newborn lamb frolicking on the spring grass
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
There are pains too deep for words, but there's touch to say what words can't. 'Can
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
SOUL, he writes on the board. The clay streaks the word like dried blood. This is where you can find your soul, if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
SOUL, he writes on the board. The clay streaks the word like dried blood. This is where you can find your soul, if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Why was the mind said to have an eye and not a hand, or a tongue? Perhaps touch, taste, odour, sound were linked to the heart rather than the intellect.
~ Laurie R. King
There are four basic emotions - mad, sad, glad and scared. And if you touch those emotions then you can grab your audience, your reader.
~ Larry Winget
But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
~ Alexander Pope
There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Every science touches art at some points—every art has its scientific side; the worst man of science is he who is never an artist, and the worst artist is he who is never a man of science.
~ Armand Trousseau
Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
To be touched with love was a kind of miracle.
~ Hillary Jordan, When She Woke
My fingers find his. They are warm, pulsing with genetically altered blue blood, powered by mirror matter.
~ Georgia Clark, Parched
He was protecting me with just the tips of his fingers, like five miniature copies of his heart touching my skin.
~ Megan Duke, Without Me
I know a cure for sadness: Let our hands touch something that makes your eyes smile.
~ Meera