Sex Quotes

As I grow older and olderAnd totter towards the tomb,I find I care less and lessWho goes to bed with whom.

Dorothy L. Sayers, That's Why I

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love

Bertrand Russell

What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

Henry Miller

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

Georges Bataille

Skill makes love unending.

Ovid

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

Bette Midler

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.

Andrea Dworkin

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

Simone de Beauvoir

Whoever named it necking is a poor judge of anatomy.

Groucho Marx

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.

Mark Twain

Sex outside marriage is sin; sex within marriage is not sin.

Bertrand Russell

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

Aldous Huxley

Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.

Mark Twain

Vibrators. I think they are great. They keep you out of stupid sex. I'd pitch them to anybody.

Anne Heche

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

George Bernard Shaw

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

Susan Sontag

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

Susan Sontag

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.

Jane Austen

Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.

Midge Decter

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.

Wilhelm Reich