Quote by Grace Paley

“It is queer, but my love and longing for the world are always deepened by my absence from it; it's wondrous, don't you think,…

— Kate Morton

“Sexual pessimism: The equation of sexual love outside the prerequisites of reproduction with death.”

— Lawrence Osborne

“It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Let me leave you with this thought, written by my father before he died. If you incorporate it into your system of values, it…

— James C. Dobson

“Sensuality often forces the growth of love too much, so that its root remains weak, and is easily torn up.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“Sexual energy is just that, it’s energy. And where we choose to expend that energy makes all the difference in the world.”

— Joy McMillan

“I did not yet know that my lack of enjoyment - my distaste, my suffering even - would be considered normal and even desirable…

— Margaret Atwood

“...what exactly is there in human existence that can lure you away from pleasure: peace of mind, a walk by the sea, moderation?”

— Kapka Kassabova

“The power and omnipresence of the sexual drive: Next to the love of life it shows itself here as the strongest and most active…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“A modern person has no energy to love any other time than his own.”

— Torgny Lindgren

“This is the very ecstasy of love, Whose violent property fordoes itself And leads the will to desperate undertakings As oft as any passion…

— William Shakespeare