Desire Quote by Dorothy Allison

“The act of sex is healthy, normal, God-given. It's the emotions and entitlement that everyone attaches to it that is harmful.”

— Alessandra Torre

“Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have.”

— John Steinbeck

Despite what you've been conditioned to believe, sexual desire is sacred and virtuous. When you and your beloved merge physically and emotionally, you go…

— Deepak Chopra

“Sexual desire does not obey the laws that maintain peace and contentment between partners. Reason, understanding, compassion, and camaraderie are the handmaidens of a…

— Esther Perel

“Desire may arise inside us, but it cannot bind us. Pleasure may seem alluring, but it cannot fetter us. Life's goal is much more…

— Avijeet Das

“All beings desire pleasure, a surcease of need or want, and there is no shame in that.”

— Sherri L. King

“There's no shame in wanting sex, I love that you feel wanton and free to explore your desires.”

— Ava Bellamy

“I do believe that the emphasis on egalitarian and respectful sex—purged of any expressions of power, aggression, and transgression—is antithetical to erotic desire for…

— Esther Perel

“Whether this desire for sex is moderate or not, it is usually called lust.”

— Baruch Spinoza

“Heterosexuality is the enjoyment with fear, the pleasure with responsibility and the lust with concerns.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Originally and naturally, sexual pleasure was the good, the beautiful, the happy, that which united man with nature in general. When sexual feelings and…

— Wilhelm Reich

“People fear sensuality simply because they don't know its actual purpose. But, please, don't be ignorant my friend: Sensuality was NOT intended to make…

— Lebo Grand