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Quotes About Touch

And every year there is a brief, startling moment When we pause in the middle of a long walk home and Suddenly feel something invisible and weightless Touching our shoulders, sweeping down from the air: It is the autumn wind pressing against our bodies; It is the changing light of fall falling on us.
~ Edward Hirsch
Some momentary touches of my fire Have warmed the barren ages with a beam: There is no peak beyond my swift desire, There is no beauty deeper than my dream.
~ Edwin Markham
Light and praise, Love and atonement, harmony and peace. Touch me, assail me, break and make my heart.
~ Edwin Muir
Every subject and object, on this universe, stay in mysterious rays- circle and touches with each other since only a touch is life.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Opening her handbag, she took out a small bottle of perfume and touched the stopper behind her ears. Its cool, glassy edge felt like her only point of contact with tangible reality.
~ Eileen Chang
Her hands felt cold, but she was somehow warmed by the sound of a familiar voice.
~ Eileen Chang
I hope you all find yourself sleeping with someone you love, maybe not all of the time, but a lot of the time. The touch of a foot in the night is sincere. I hope you like your work, I hope there's mystery and poetry in your life, not even poems, but patterns. I hope you can see them. Often these patterns will wake you up, and you will know that you are alive, again and again.
~ Eileen Myles
Tras tenderse al sol, las piedras guardan la memoria de sus cuerpos, los acunan, los adormecen. Max la guía. A veces la toma de la mano, a veces la suelta...
~ Elena Poniatowska
As long as you're better at it than skating...," Anna said and stood up too. She wanted to say more, but that wasn't possible because he was kissing her. Reasonable Anna wanted to draw back the danger of touch. But unreasonable Anna welcomed the kiss like happiness. Maybe, she thought, it's better to take these moments when you get them - there might not be too many in life.
~ Antonia Michaelis
El alma de las personas no está en las fotografías sino en las cosas menudas que tocaron, las que tuvieron el calor de las palmas de sus manos. La noche de los tiempos
~ Antonio Munoz Molina
El alma de las personas no está en las fotografías sino en las cosas menudas que tocaron, las que tuvieron el calor de las palmas de sus manos.
~ Antonio Munoz Molina
The ground reality is that there is no beauty created in writing for others' MIND unless and until it is written by a person with own SOUL's feelings to touch the people's HEART.
~ Anuj Somany
in that hushed hour between midnight and dawn when Morpheus' sable hands touch the rosy finger tips of Aurora and even the fairies are slumbering on their flowery couches
~ Anya Seton
Whole years will be spent, underneath these impossible stars, when dirt's the only animal who will sleep with you & touch you with its mouth.
~ Aracelis Girmay
Oh, body, be held now by whom you love. Whole years will be spent, underneath these impossible stars, when dirt's the only animal who will sleep with you & touch you with its mouth.
~ Aracelis Girmay
With his mouth still tightly fixed to hers, their breaths mingling, he dragged her hand from around his neck and placed her palm just below her navel. Then he covered it with his own.
~ Arnette Lamb
I'm just glad I can make a difference in someone's life.
~ Tommy Chong
Joy never comes to those who seek it. In the self-forgetting hour when we are touched by another's need and sacrifice for it, we suddenly find our soul aflame with glorious joy
~ Fulton Sheen
Our souls need music, Robert, as our bodies need touch.
~ Gaelen Foley
The last memory I have Is of a flower which cannot be touched, Through the bloom of which, all day, Fly crazed, missing bees. from "Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock
~ Galway Kinnell
I'm about the wins and any time I get to touch the ball, hopefully I can make something good happen with it.
~ Tavon Austin
And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
~ Petrarch
When you're old nobody touches you nobody listens to you—not in this bloody country.so that's what I do. I touch and I listen.
~ Rose Tremain
She touched his shoulder, very lightly, like a child fingering a forbidden object.
~ Ross MacDonald