Love & The Senses

Nothing awakens a reminiscence like a scent.
--Victor Hugo

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
--Omar Khayyam

If music be the food of love, play on ...
--Shakespeare

To love is to enjoy seeing, touching, and sensing with all the senses,
as closely as possible, a lovable object which loves in return.
--Stendhal, De l'Amour

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
--Oscar Wilde

We are astonished at thought but sensation is equally wonderful.
--Voltaire

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.
--Ouida

All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
--Lucy Van Pelt, "Peanuts"

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
--Carl W. Buechner

If a hug represented how much I loved you, I would hold you in my arms forever.
--Mandy Hampton

The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss.
--Author Unknown

To love and be loved is to feel the sun on both sides.
-- David Viscott

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
--Shakespeare

Love at first sight is possible, but it pays to take a second look.
--Author Unknown

Love knows no reasons, love knows no lies.
Love defies all reasons, love has no eyes.
But love is not blind, love sees but doesn't mind.
--Author Unknown

We live on the leash of our senses.
--Diane Ackerman

I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak,
than a heart that cannot love.
--Robert Tizon

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
--Lao Tzu

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
--Oscar Wilde

The best smell in the world is that man that you love.
--Jennifer Aniston

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
--George Sand

Love is the poetry of the senses.
--Honore de Balzac

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.
--Annie Sullivan