“The only kinds of sexual dysfunction are abstinence, celibacy, and delayed marriage.” — Alfred C. Kinsey Copy Share Image
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond. — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent — Socrates Copy Share Image
If we were the last two people alive on earth, we'd make celibacy the new national pasttime. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Eventually, if desire withers, monogamy too easily slides downward into celibacy. When this happens, fidelity becomes a weakness rather than a virtue.” — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Celibacy used to offend family-values conservatism; now it offends equally against the opposite spirit. — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I took the vow of celibacy in 1906. I had not shared my thoughts with my wife until then, but only consulted… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Try to force celibacy upon yourself and your dreams will become sexual, they will have a quality of sexuality. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“on the higher levels of the spiritual path, celibacy is considered a most important aspect of the training.” — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another. — Martin Luther 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
“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
“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
(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
Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our… — Pope Paul VI 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
“I've been following the noble profession of hermiting here for nigh on fifty-seven years, practising piety, sobriety, celibacy and the pursuit of… — terry pratchett Copy Share Image
The practice of celibacy alone was opening me up to a deeper sense of the way the mind-body connection works. I saw… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
And whatsoever is repressed has to be repressed again because victory is never complete. There is no way to destroy sex by… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“It is often said, inside the Church and out of it, that there is something grotesque about lectures on the sexual life… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“We also wish warmly to affirm those sisters and brothers, already in membership with orthodox churches, who - while experiencing same-sex desires… — Richard Bewes Copy Share Image
“Neither these men of the world nor Buddhist ascetics can be optimists. The latter rigorously deny themselves sensual gratifications, and keep themselves… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
I'm restless. My whole generation is restless. I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Venom didn't answer until they'd crossed teh street, his body moving with liquid grace. Holly couldn't help it; she watched him. There… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“I'm not an advocate of promiscuity; but then I'm also not an advocate of being virginal. It's not like I put virginity… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“One begins to be free of the disease (of the sex), from the moment he or she opposes sex.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“If there is a greatest destroyer of the Self (the Soul), it is sexuality.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Don’t deny to the body what is naturally its right, not even under religious pretext” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Unlike celibacy, which people choose, asexuality is an intrinsic part of who we are. — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
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