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Quotes About Touch

A simple smile, a tender touch, speaks the true language of love.
~ Dan Fogelberg
Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land.
~ Jean Ingelow
The smile on your lips brings the summer sunshine, the tears in your eyes bring the rain. I feel your touch, you warm embrace, and I'm in heaven again.
~ Bobby Helms
He moved his fingers down her whole spine, one by one by one, and during the time it took to do that, his brain remained absolutely quiet. It is these empty spaces you have to watch out for, as they flood up with feeling before you even realize what's happened; before you find yourself, at the base of her spine, different.
~ Aimee Bender
As I touch the earth, I am healed and I give healing.
~ Alan Cohen
like the luminescence of the night above the trees just when a rising moon has touched the treeline.
~ Alan Lightman
Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.
~ Alan Moore
I like the prince who was reading a book when the executioner touched him on the shoulder telling him that it was time, and he, arising, laid a papercutter between the pages to keep his place and closed the book.
~ Djuna Barnes
What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
~ Don DeLillo
That which we fear to touch is often the fabric of our salvation.
~ Don DeLillo, White Noise
The thought content of ghazals must be meaningful, related to life, it's emotions of joy and sorrow. It must have the human touch, it should not be phoney.
~ Jagjit Singh
Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.
~ Nhat Hanh
What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
~ Don DeLillo
To touch is to give life.
~ Michelangelo
In the theater you create a moment, but in that moment, there is a touch, a twinkle of eternity. And not just eternity, but community. . . . That connection is a sense of life for me.
~ Edward Teller
His hand is firm and warm, and somehow, big as it is, it fits with mine.
~ Jennifer Niven
I can feel the apology in his fingers, and this takes the wind out of me, so I lean into him—just a little—and read over his shoulder. His hand is warm and I don't want to stop holding it. We
~ Jennifer Niven
My hand feels cold without his.
~ Jennifer Niven
In that instant Marian was swept up by the need to touch him, to reach out and press flesh to flesh, finger to finger; to close her hand on his arm so she could feel the warmth and vigor beneath the tunic sleeve. She wanted to know without question he was living, breathing, and hers.
~ Jennifer Roberson
That's why you're not allowed to touch the Christmas trees," said Phoebe, nodding and carefully moving all the bits of carrot away from the chicken. She had to eat them, but she would put it off to the last possible moment.
~ Jenny Colgan
Hearing him say it now, that is was my birthday present, touched me in the last place I wanted him to touch me. My heart.
~ Jenny Han
I put my freezing hands on his cheeks and instead of pushing them away, he said, "Ahh, feels good." I laughed and said, "That's because you're coldhearted." He put my hands in his coat pockets and said in a voice so soft I wondered if I heard him right, "For everyone else, maybe. But not for you.
~ Jenny Han
I move to slug him in the shoulder, and he laughs and grab my hand and links my finger with his. It feels like my heart is beating right through my hand. It's the first time we've hold hands for real, and it feels different from those fake times. like electric currents, in a good way. The best way.
~ Jenny Han
My hair was hanging low, and from the backseat, all of a sudden, I felt Conrad touching it, running his fingers through the bottom. I think I stopped breathing. We were sitting in perfect silence, and Conrad Fisher was playing with my hair.
~ Jenny Han