Mundanity Quote by Amor Towles

“The truth is she was a fearless apprentice but lacked all talent for guided fornication. She never understood the charm of serenity in bed,…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez - translator Edith Grossman

“Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence.”

— J.M. Coetzee

“As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”

— Helen Keller

“Life is short, and society is dead wrong when it comes to sex. I plan to live my life to the fullest, enjoying every…

— Amanda Abbott

“Every rational being she believed must have some purpose in life beyond mere pleasure for pleasure's sake. Enjoyment without settled principles, laudable purposes, mental…

— Lynne Withey

“Indeed, that pleasure does not exist, isolated and formulated in the consciousness, as the ultimate object with which one seeks a woman’s company, or…

— Marcel Proust

“The pleasing punishment that women bare....”

— William Shakespeare

“There was an art to taking someone outside of themselves. Some people went their whole lives enjoying pleasurable sex without brushing those lines, those…

— Kit Rocha

“At the same time that I was marketing myself as a sexual product, in accordance with my instruction by women’s magazines, romance novels, and…

— Emily Nagoski

“Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep…

— Ayn Rand

“Just the minute another person is drawn into some one's life, there begin to arise undreamed-of complexities, and from such a simple beginning as…

— E.B. White

“No matter where we are and what we are subjected to, we will eventually settle into the new reality and try to find pleasure,…

— Wendy Walker