Quotes about touch
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“You think I'm not a goddess?
Try me.
This is a torch song.
Touch me and you'll burn.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

“Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.”

Milan Kundera book Laughable Loves

Source: Laughable Loves

Jealousy

“I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.”

Alexander McCall Smith The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Source: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Personality

“Perhaps your challenge isn't finding a better project or a better boss. Perhaps you need to get in touch with what it means to feel passionate. People with passion look for ways to make things happen.”

Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker

Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

People, Way, Feeling, Passion

“For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.”

Alan Lightman book Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

Kiss, Memory, Passion, Night

“Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.”

Michelle Tea (1971) American writer

Source: Rose of No Man's Land

Pain, Beauty, Feeling, Personality

“He can touch your soul. And there is a difference between having your heart break and having your soul shatter.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Soul, Heart

“I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.”

James Thurber book The 13 Clocks

Source: The 13 Clocks

Sadness, Feeling, Heart

“Do you want to hold it?' she asked, dangling the padded envelope in front of Hale with two fingers.

'No.'

'Do you want to touch it and kiss it and wear it around your neck?'

'Don't be silly,' he told her. 'Everyone knows green isn't my color.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

Color, Kiss

“If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

“Out of old habit, I put my hand on my collarbone, touching a cross that was no longer there. I prayed silently.”

Richelle Mead book Silver Shadows

Source: Silver Shadows

“If I were rain,
That joins sky and earth that otherwise never touch,
Could I join two hearts as well?”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Source: Bleach, Volume 01

Heart

“I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

Source: Letters to Sartre

Love

“Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion

Lie, Parting, Night

“Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundred of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infamous

Life

“The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace,
The prurient ape's defiling touch:
And do you like the human race?
No, not much.”

Aldous Huxley book Ape and Essence

Source: Ape and Essence

Kiss

“Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

People

“Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, - this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society”

W.E.B. Du Bois book The Souls of Black Folk

Source: The Souls of Black Folk

Democracy, Soul

“We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us--words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

Appearance

“Touch me again, and it will be your last act in life - Blue Eyes.”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: Jealousy

Life

“We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”

Eric Carle (1929) American children's illustrator and writer

Beauty, Thinking, Time

“Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.”

Charles Lamb (1775–1834) English essayist

“He gets hurt by the smallest touch. It'll be okay, as long as there will finally be a day. Eventually, one day. It will be good if all our burdens would finally be released. I really hope you can do it. I hope you two can both live happily.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Hope, Hurt

“Be an encourager. Scatter sunshine. Who knows whose life you might touch with something as simple as a kind word.”

Debbie Macomber (1948) American writer

Life

“Man, you cannot be real," the human said softly.
"Why not?"
"You just can't."
She laughed a little. "Well, I am." He cleared his throat again. Offered her a lopsided grin.
"Mind if I ask you to prove it?"
"How?"
"Can I touch your hair?”

Jessica Bird book Dark Lover

Source: Dark Lover

“They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Happiness, Nature

“When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.”

Stephen Levine (1937–2016) American poet and author

Love, Pain, Fear

“He scowled at Jason. "And please, I don't like being touched. Don't ever grab me again.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

“The pressure of his touch through my jacket and my sweater was more assurance than any promise ever made to me. It was a touch that said, I have your back and I am here for you. If a girl wasn't careful, she could fall in love with a touch like that.”

Justina Chen (1968) American writer

Source: North of Beautiful

Love, Girl

“Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

Life, Way, History

“I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Source: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

“I needed to see you. And touch you. And just… know”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

“I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.
People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Love, People, Learning

“The greatest tales, well told, awaken the fears and longings of the listeners. Each man hears a different story. Each is touched by it according to his inner self. The words go to the ear, but the true message travels straight to the spirit.”

Juliet Marillier book Son of the Shadows

Source: Son of the Shadows

Fear, Travel

“Everything matters. Everything you do touches someone in some way, even though you might not understand that.”

Jennifer Ashley (1974) American author

Source: The Duke's Perfect Wife

Way, Understanding

“Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.”

Homér Iliad

Source: The Iliad

Men, Daughters, Madness

“They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Love, Communication

“Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

Books, Hope, Soul, Sense

“On a sunny Tuesday - for it seems so many awful things happen on a Tuesday - six astronauts and one schoolteacher attempted to pierce the sky. Instead they touched the stars.”

Neal Shusterman book Everwild

Source: Everwild

Star

“I want to put my hand out and touch you. I want to do for you and care for you. I want to be there when you're sick and when you're lonesome.”

Edith Wharton book Ethan Frome

Source: Ethan Frome

“Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.”

Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer

As "Trudy"
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
Variant: Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it....

Reality

“I couldn't tell fact from fiction,
Or if the dream was true
My only sure prediction
In this world was you.
I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Love, World, Dreams, Sense

“I was alive, they were not. Go Me. (Touch the Dark)”

Karen Chance book Touch the Dark

Source: Touch the Dark

“Hoo! You're like a giant mood ring! I wonder if I can make different colors show up depending on where i touch you
- Nell Harris”

Katie MacAlister (1964) Author

Color, Mood, Dependency

“If he waits for the ideal moment, he will never set off; he requires a touch of madness to take the next step. The warrior uses that touch of madness. For - in both love and war - it is impossible to foresee everything.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Warrior of the Light

Love, War, Waiting, Madness

“I don’t. I don’t want anybody else to touch you. I’m silly. I get furious if they touch you.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.”

Bill Russell (1934) American professional basketball player and coach

Hope, Learning

“What’s a little calming distraction for your girlfriend in the midst of world entertainment domination?”
“I’d stop the world from spinning for you.”
That silly line oddly touched me. “I love you.”
“Liked that one, did you?”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Entwined with You

Love, World

“When you were the son of evil, there was little you couldn't do, own, or kill, and yet her mortal self was an elusive trophy he could touch, but not put on his shelf.

This made her rare. This made her precious.

This made him… love her.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Mine

Love, Evil

“Andrea raised her hand. “This is the hand that slapped Aunt B.”
“Maybe you should have it gold-plated.”
“Here, you can touch it, since you’re my best friend.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

“Evil doesn't die. It never dies. It just takes on a new face, a new name. Just because we've been touched by it once, it doesn't mean we're immune to ever being hurt again. Lightning can strike twice.”

Tess Gerritsen book The Surgeon

Source: The Surgeon

Evil, Hurt

“All the drawing lacks
is the final touch: To add
eyes to the dragon”

Diane Duane book The Wizard's Dilemma

Source: The Wizard's Dilemma

Drawing

“Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: Solipsist

Beauty, Help, Forgetting

“I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.”

Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer

Source: Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits

Books

“For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.”

John Cheever (1912–1982) American novelist and short story writer

Lovers, Change, Parting

“What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.”

Alain de Botton book The Architecture of Happiness

Source: The Architecture of Happiness

Beauty

“The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.”

Sam Keen (1931) author, professor, and philosopher

“There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne book Rappaccini's Daughter

Source: Rappaccini's Daughter

“Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick…”

Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist

Source: Book of Shadows

Love, Feeling, Lovers, Tree

“Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Parting

“A massive fir, it rose to nearly touch the ceiling at the far end of the ballroom. When Will asked Charlotte how on earth it had gotten in there, she had only waved her hands and said something about Magnus.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Touch me. Soft eyes. Soft soft soft hand. I am lonely here. O, touch me soon, now. What is that word known to all men? I am quiet here alone. Sad too. Touch, touch me.”

James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist and poet

Source: Ulysses by James Joyce

Men, Sadness

“Wildness had never been a part of her life. Home, work, home, work. That's all her life had consisted of, really. She'd told Maddox that she'd been glad for her solitude, bu the truth was, there were times she'd been starved for touch. Any touch.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Night

Life, Truth, Home, Solitude

“It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.”

Elizabeth Kostova book The Historian

Source: The Historian

“The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched.”

Ann Brashares (1967) American children's writer

Love, Feeling, Freedom, Water

“This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.”

Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic

Books

“I wish there was someone I could have written to after that, someone I could have written to explain how awful it was to have someone touch you, then look at you properly and change his mind.”

Helen Oyeyemi (1984) British author

Source: Mr. Fox

Change

“She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“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 Speak

Source: Speak

Soul, Help, Parting, Drawing

“He took her into his arms again, using all his strength to be gentle, and let his lips touch hers so lightly he could hardly feel it.”

Morgan Llywelyn book Lion of Ireland

Source: Lion of Ireland

Feeling

“But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Truth, Hope, Painting

“I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Law, Revenge, Thinking

“Gideon touched her cheek, lightly, with the tips of his fingers. “Did you know your name means ‘wisdom’? It was very well-given.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Wisdom

“Amazing how he could make her feel. Safe in a vacant lot, warm in the middle of the night. Just being this close to him, being able to touch his thoughts and feel his presence, was comforting-and dizzying.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Dark Visions

Feeling, Night

“Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it….”

Jane Wagner (1935) Playwright, actress

As "Trudy"
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)

Reality

“Was this what it meant to love someone? That any burden was a burden shared, that they could give you comfort with a word or a touch?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Love

“I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Flowers, Sun

“He was still stroking the inside of her wrist, his touch doing odd delicious things to her skin and nerves.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

Love

“Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, Those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way.”

Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows

Source: The Wind in the Willows

Way, Home

“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: Der blinde Mörder

Truth

“Touch magic. Pass it on.”

Jane Yolen (1939) American speculative fiction and children's writer

Source: Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

“She even touches Jimmy's face on the photos, and I see what it is to love someone like Milla loved that man. Her fingertips are made of love.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Love, Photo

“We have not touched the stars,
nor are we forgiven, which brings us back
to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes,
not from the absence of violence, but despite
the abundance of it.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Source: Crush

Star

“I missed you so much," she breathed.
I tilted my head back and put my hands on her shoulders. I could hardly believe this was happening. I was finally getting to touch her. To kiss her. It was all happening. "I missed you, too.”

Kieran Scott (1974) American writer

Source: He's So Not Worth It

Kiss, Missing You

“I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality.

-Claude Frollo”

Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Source: The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Dreams, Reality

“… in that drunken place
you would
like to hand your heart to her
and say
touch it
but then
give it back.”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Heart

“I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.”

John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Children, Secret, Literature, Thinking

“It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn”

James Patterson (1947) American author

“It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.”

Alan Lightman book Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

World, Kiss, Past, Future

“I’ve seen your foot up close.”
Curran pointed to his chest. “I’ve seen it here.” He moved his hand to his jaw. “Here.” He touched the place over his cheek where my kick had cut him. “And here.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

“Poison!" Grover yelped. "Don't let those things touch you or…"
"Or we'll die?" I guessed.
"Well… after you shrivel slowly to dust, yes."
"Let's avoid the swords," I decided.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Love, Peace, Understanding, Joy

“It was like this sometimes, and I felt I should look away, but I couldn't. I wanted to be there, having my face touched, defeating a heart like Peter's, but the next best thing was seeing it for Tiger Lily.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Heart

“You might wanna rethink that, boy. 'Cause if I'm going to get sued for offensively touching you, I'm going to make it worth my while.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Boy

“If you touch me like that again, Evangeline,” he began in a husky tone, dropping to his seat once more, “in the space of a heartbeat, I will have you off this bike and onto the closest horizontal surface. And I woan be picky, no.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Poison Princess

“People are intimidated by a man who acts with no apparent regard for consequences. Behave as if you cannot be touched and no one will dare to touch you.”

Robin Hobb book Assassin's Apprentice

Source: Assassin's Apprentice

People

“I'm against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Dreams, Nature, Thinking

“Didn't I tell you not to touch the Lamborghini? (Kyrian)
(Hunter groused an instant before he cut the wheel and sent the vampire flying through the air.)
And they told me you guys couldn't fly. (Kyrian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

Guy, Flying

“Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.”

Milan Kundera book The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Happiness, Drink, Water, Cry

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Quotes about touch
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