Quote by Marcus Aurelius

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with

Summary

This quote suggests that the act of sexual intimacy is as profound and transcendent as music and prayer. It implies that all three experiences evoke a sense of deep connection, harmony, and a form of spiritual expression. Sex, like music and prayer, has the potential to transport individuals into a state of intense emotional and physical union, where they can experience pleasure, vulnerability, and a profound sense of connection with themselves and their partners. The quote highlights the significance and transformative power of these experiences in our lives.

Topics

Music

By Marcus Aurelius

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

Pamela Stephenson

Alone

The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bot

The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.

Walter Lippmann

Morals

My strong point is not rhetoric , it isn't showmanship, it i

My strong point is not rhetoric , it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises - those things that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Charisma

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancest

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air.

Flight Flying

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

Billie Joe Armstrong

The world would be a better place if everyone just helped on

The world would be a better place if everyone just helped one another out when they needed it, in my opinion.

Life People World

Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in th

Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.

Trust

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

Jean de La Fontaine

Danger

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives with

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

Sir Henry Taylor

Generosity

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head ha

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Aristocracy

There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us

There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

Charles M. Schwab

Control

One of the great bands we opened up for was Priest back in '

One of the great bands we opened up for was Priest back in '89. That was really great because at that time we had never met them, never toured with them before. They were a big influence on Slayer, so to open up for them was really cool.

Cool