Sex Quotes

I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy amount become too much? There are, of course, those who suffer because their desire for sex has become compulsive; in their case the drive (loneliness, guilt) is at fault, not the activity as such. When morality is discussed I invariably discover, halfway into the conversation, that what is meant are not the great ethical questions but the rather dreary business of sexual habit, which to my mind is an aesthetic rather than an ethical issue.

Edmund White

The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency.

Bette Davis

In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.

Henri Lefebvre

For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex

C.S. Lewis

Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear.

Neil Gaiman

I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

But there was so much todo: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more time for reading when I'm old and boring.

John Green

There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.

Alexander Pope

We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children.

Oriana Fallaci

Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.

Betty Friedan

French. Feel. Finger. Fuck.

John Green

Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.

Andy Warhol, From A to B and Bac

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it

Erica Jong

If sex were all, then every trembling handCould make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.

Wallace Stevens

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.

Henry Miller, Sexus, ch. 21 (194

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you

Sophia Loren, Quoted in Halliwel

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don

Karl Kraus, Trans. by Harry Zohn

Sex contains all, bodies, souls,Meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations,Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk,All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, all the passions, loves, beauties,delights of the earth.

Walt Whitman

Sex is metaphysical for men, as it is not for women. Women have no problem to solve through sex. Physically and psychologically, they are serenely self-contained. They may choose to achieve, but they do not need it. They are not thrust into the beyond by their own fractious bodies. But men are out of balance; they must quest, pursue, court, or seize.... How often one spots a male pigeon making desperate, self-inflating sallies toward the female, as again and again she turns her back on him and nonchalantly marches away. But by concentration and insistence he may carry the day. Nature has blessed him with an obliviousness to his own absurdity.

Camille Anna Paglia, Sexual Pers

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

John Updike, Piet Hanema, in Cou