“When is one considered to have learnt to become a husband? It is when the wife continuously experiences veneration (respect) for him.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“If one wants to go to moksha, he will indeed have to become (completely) free from sex [nirvishayi].” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Self is nirvishayi (without any sense pleasure); penance-renouncing are vishayas (sense pleasure). No vishaya has the Self (Soul) in it; Self is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only… — Roger Lewis Copy Share Image
Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Fr. Benedict Groeschel says it in his uniquely northern New Jersey way: “Celibacy means that we belong exclusively to the Lord, from… — Timothy M Dolan Cardinal Copy Share Image
“If one abstains in just sex, he will end up being ‘God’. If one becomes immersed in sex, he will go straight… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“I will tell you this only once. Homosexuals have been among the best warriors in our history, the berserkers of last resort.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The truly longstanding tradition in the church is that some are called to celibacy. Some feel called to it. But the church… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
“Without sheelvan (the highest state of conduct in worldly interactions, free of the intent to hurt, free of sexuality and charaterized by… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning… — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
He who neither drinks, nor smokes, nor dances, he who preaches & even occasionally practice piety, temperance and celibacy, is generally a… — Sam Manekshaw Copy Share Image
Im single right now and Ive chosen to be single because I dont have the time to get to know anybody. So… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Children, those who are unmarried should conserve their vital energy by maintaining celibacy. To turn what we gain by this in to… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
(The tree bend over. Suddenly, a hiss and a meow sounded an instant before two cats darted off across the backyard.) Look,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
That this is possible may not be denied in a world where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people voluntarily submit to… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Okay, that's intensely interesting," Duvall said. "So you're a priest of the Forshan religion? Which schism?" "The leftward schism, and no, not… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Yes, but I’ve already made my fortune in other things. (Solin) Such as? (Geary) Viagra. My brother learned to take a personal… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of course. He has… — Hans Küng Copy Share Image
“It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be gobbled up… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“In the main, it counsels yielding to celibacy, which is exactly as sensible as advising a dog to forget its fleas.” — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Most people that commit to a life of celibacy weren't leaving that much on the table in the first place. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats. — Sean O Faolain Copy Share Image
Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“A love of celibacy and a zeal for martyrdom does not bode well for the future of the sect." - regarding the… — B.B. Warfield Copy Share Image
“individual sexual drive varies greatly, that penetrative intercourse is not the only means of sexual satisfaction and that celibacy never killed anyone.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in this world that will bind you. Only where one enjoys the women other than his own wife, that… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“This worldly life is very difficult. Mother-in-law comes, mother of the mother-in-law comes, sister of mother-in-law comes, aunt of mother-in-law comes. How… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“it may be worth while to note again how often finely developed skulls are discovered in the graveyards of old monasteries, and… — John Beddoe Copy Share Image
“Now, I don’t like to be self-depreciating and all– but if this guy has to search the want ads to find love… — Emily Harper Copy Share Image
“If there are vishayas (objects of sense pleasure) in the mind, they are all vishayas of the pudgal (Complex of intake and… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Italian women are some of the most beautiful in the world. This is why the Vatican is in Italy. If a man… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Despite her extraordinary beauty, and so many young men were running after her, Maria remained virgin, never had a lover (But a… — Maximillien de Lafayette Copy Share Image
There is much to be said for post-menopausal celibacy. Sex is rough on loners because you have to have somebody else around,… — Florence King Copy Share Image
In this modern world, the celibacy of the medieval learned class has been replaced by a celibacy of the intellect which is… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image