Love Quote by Melissa Febos

I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the…

— Jack Kerouac

Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.

— Philippa Gregory

I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.

— Lionel Blue

I saw what was wonderful about human companionship. Before that, I was quite content to be alone, to be a solitary wandering person, and…

— Sheila Heti

The advantage of being celibate is that when one sees a pretty girl one does not need to grieve over having an ugly one…

— Paul Leautaud

I was celibate until the age of 21. I stayed in my bedroom reading Camus and Nietzsche

— Richey Edwards

Love was where I learned to go beyond myself, through the arts, through relationships, through sexuality.

— Frederick Lenz

I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness.

— Rajneesh

I loved being in love, I loved my marriage and being married and all that stuff.

— Chris Harrison

In my younger days I struggled constantly with an overwhelming but pure love affair - my only one, and I would have struggled with…

— Petrarch

I know that people can live celibate lives. I did it myself for many years.

— Hamza Yusuf

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly…

— Jane Smiley