Quotes About Love And Sexuality

#1. Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#2. You didn't," she said in a resolute voice. "And you won't in the future, because with each purging of your soul, your anger will subside until the only release you'll need will be in my arms.

Monica Burns

#3. As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light - it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it.

Simone De Beauvoir

#4. Love your body, love your sexuality, and realize that you are a bad human being only if you are unkind and cruel and do harm unto others and not because of your sex life.

Roxana Shirazi

#5. Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute.

Julieanne O'Connor

#6. Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

Madonna Ciccone

#7. Deep down many of us experience a vast discrepancy between what we're taught we should feel about sex and how we actually feel.

Antonia Hall

#8. Be generous, kind and compassionate. These are true characteristics of successful people.

Archie Lee

#9. Potential enemies make the best friends and lovers. Many a blessed union begins in adversity.

Randy Thornhorn

#10. Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?

Harlan Ellison

#11. I like the sounds of words. Words are very enjoyable. I like words because they are ... seductive. And I like words because they can contain ... fantasies.

James Lusarde

#12. You don't have to choose between your faith and your sexuality. You're not alone, things will get better, and God loves you exactly the way you are.

Vicky Beeching

#13. i am the lion and
you are the lamb and
as prophesied,
we will lie down together.

Thomas Lloyd Qualls

#14. Love making is much more than physical expression, it is a soulful dance of sensual wonder and euphoric amazement.

T.F. Hodge

#15. Sex is a thing, love is everything.

Arzum Uzun

#16. I found growing up that love and sexuality was a wonderful way to understand existence. When we love it takes us beyond ourselves, otherwise we're just absorbed with the preoccupations that we invent.

Frederick Lenz

#17. I smile at you, hinting at the pleasures ahead, and silently point to the zip at the back of my dress ...

James Lusarde

#18. The unity and congruity of culture and nature, work and love, morality and sexuality, longed for from time immemorial, will remain a dream as long as man continues to condemn the biological demand for natural sexual gratification.

Wilhelm Reich

#19. I hired you for your attitude, and so far I'm pretty happy with my decision. But I'm not sure I can work with you until I've fucked this attraction out of my system.

J.C. Reed

#20. 233Life is for the living and the dead, she said in a smile,

And flashed me a bit of pale thigh in the summer time

Derek Keck

#21. To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do. I love it when I meet a woman and her sexuality is dancing across her face, so it's apparent that all we need to do is nod and find a cupboard.

Russell Brand

#22. If you put your heart into it, you can write 30 sex scenes and have each one be different, and just as exciting as the one before it.

Nadlee Thims

#23. Am saying that lesbianism, homosexuality, and heterosexuality are valid expressions of man's bisexual nature.
I am also stressing the fact that love and sexuality are not necessarily the same thing. Sex is love's expression, but it is only one of love's expressions.

Seth

#24. Love makes temporary saints and poets of us all. We feel the source of life welling up inside us and long to express the joy it brings and share it with the partner of our heart's awakening.

John Maxwell Taylor

#25. Love is love. It doesn't matter about sexuality, it's just about how you feel towards somebody else and being good and honest with them.

Sarah Lancashire

#26. I remember a rainy, depressing afternoon when she remarked 'What a pity we can't make love, there's nothing else to do,' and he agreed that it was and there wasn't.

Christopher Isherwood

#27. I don't mind being sexy, but on my terms. To this day, I love sexuality. I love the art of sexuality. I love Lady Gaga and the performance of sexuality. The mysterious, the artistic and the slightly perverse. I'm interested in all that.

Helen Mirren

#28. Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.

Caroline Knapp

#29. Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate.

Jess C. Scott

#30. But time and time again, I saw the change in their eyes once they'd conquered me. Dehumanization always follows penetration.

Maggie Young

#31. There was no world, no land, no god or heaven or earth outside of their two bodies naked and trembling in the act of love.

Roman Payne

#32. Parents' tolerance of violence is so different to their tolerance of sexuality. If violence is involved in the sexuality it's somehow perceived as entertainment, but if love is involved with sexuality it's seen as pornographic and is not acceptable.

Ryan Gosling

#33. There is nothing unholy or degrading about sexuality in itself, for by that means men and women join in a process of creation and in an expression of love

Spencer W. Kimball

#34. I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock n' roll.

Patti Smith

#35. Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.

John Cheever

#36. When I got hit by the car, I became depressed. As a result, I've been on antidepressants and I feel like I have no sexuality left. People complain about that side effect, but I love it. I feel outside of society.

Bradford Cox

#37. Unless your sexuality rises and reaches to love it is mundane, it has nothing sacred about it. When your sex becomes love, then it is entering into a totally different dimension - the dimension of the mysterious and the miraculous. Now it is becoming religious, sacred, it is no longer profane.

Rajneesh

#38. And here's why it worked: man or woman, gay, straight, bisexual, you name it, we all just want to be teased.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#39. Thus the Government of our Virtue was broken and I exchang'd the Place of Friend for that unmusical harsh-sounding Title of Whore.

Daniel Defoe

#40. Love is born in sexuality but sexuality is not love. The lotus is born in the mud, but the lotus is not just mud. And if mud remains mud of course there are bound to be tears on the cheeks.

Rajneesh

#41. Women who love women, who choose women to nurture and support and to create a living environment in which to work creatively and independently, are lesbians.

Blanche Wiesen Cook

#42. Because I want to have sex with him
and because that's sinful
I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny.

Jess C. Scott

#43. I was hot and horny as hell.
Which was typical of me. I'm twenty-five, and I'm healthy, and a healthy girl is always thinking about sex.

Fiona Thrust

#44. Don't let lack of sexual communication get in the way of your pleasure any longer. Dare to ask the questions that will make sex so much more enjoyable, boost passion, and facilitate a deeper connection and intimacy in your relationship.

Miya Yamanouchi

#45. The great macrocosmic universe circulates the bliss and joy of the energy that has created it through the microcosmic circuits of two bodies that have become as one soul.

John Maxwell Taylor

#46. To love without ownership, to love with total trust and faith in that very love, to love with the same faith you have that your heart will keep beating moments from now, that is the ultimate love.

Julieanne O'Connor

#47. In terms of sexual orientation I don't really feel I've changed. I don't feel there was a hidden part of my sexuality that I wasn't aware of. I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange.

Cynthia Nixon

#48. I took her to bed with silk and song
'Lay still, my love, I won't be long,
I must prepare my body for passion.'
'O, your body you give, but all else you ration ...

Roman Payne

#49. Intimacy and lovemaking - intertwined, meshed, and one becoming the other - are what I strive to achieve each time I am presented with the opportunity to enjoy a lovemaking experience.

J.F. Kelly

#50. Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.

Elizabeth Janeway

#51. A conditional love is nothing but an infatuation, sexuality. Unconditional is the only way love can be. Wherever a condition comes in, love disappears. It cannot live in bondage, and a condition gives it an imprisonment. Love can only live like the vast sky. Love knows no boundaries.

Rajneesh

#52. Thinking about the bed leaves you horny, but thinking beyond the bed gives you honor, freedom and wisdom.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#53. Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.

Pope John Paul II

#54. Ladies, you have a ton of power if you just understand the fundamental differences between men and women and unaffectedly play by the rules.

Julieanne O'Connor

#55. Used as rocket fuel, sex energy can lift our consciousness to the stars to experience a state of being where love exists in and for itself and has no opposite. On a soul level, this is our natural state.

John Maxwell Taylor

#56. I don't think anyone's sexuality needs to be a public issue other than to give others the confidence to love themselves wholeheartedly and to be their true, authentic self without any shame.

Crystal Bowersox

#57. I'm pretty firm in my sexuality and my love for women.

Kenny Chesney

#58. Our eyes will know the heavens if our lips stay for each other.

Roman Payne

#59. Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.

Anais Nin

#60. Love more deeply and without the sense of what you love being your personal possession.

Frederick Lenz

#61. Chastity by no means signifies rejection of human sexuality or lack of esteem for it: rather it signifies spiritual energy capable of defending love from the perils of selfishness and aggressiveness, and able to advance it towards its full realization.

Pope John Paul II

#62. Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don't think so though I'm not sure if I'd like to be and argh I don't think there's anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.

Jess C. Scott

#63. 'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#64. If you do not speak to your teens about the meaning of human sexuality and love, the world will fill the void of your silence with a very contrary message.

Jason Evert

#65. People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to demand a marriage certificate for life, just for one night of embracement.

Wilhelm Reich

#66. I wanted to create a book that was unafraid of black bodies, yet super interested in thinking about the relationship of love to body and sexuality without relying on tired understandings of "gay" "bi" or "straight."

Kiese Laymon

#67. Ads sell more than products. They sell values, they sell images. They sell concepts of love and sexuality, of success, and perhaps most important, of normalcy. To a great extent they tell us who we are and who we should be.

Jean Kilbourne

#68. Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double point of view, both of the man and of the woman it is not difficult to see that these people have a special work to do as reconcilers and interpreters of the two sexes to each other.

Edward Carpenter

#69. It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

Mortimer Adler

#70. Sexuality and love can be different things. I can be attracted to a woman sexually, but it doesn't mean I want to be in love with a woman. If I'm going to be with a woman sexually, it doesn't mean I'm a lesbian. We put these restraints and definitions on people, but it's hard to define.

Cameron Diaz

#71. Love can exist only after meditation, not before it. That is a simple existential law. Before meditation - only lust, only sexuality. Before meditation you are an animal and not really a human being. With meditation a transformation comes: you become human, and out of your humanness, love flows.

Rajneesh

#72. The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy.

Germaine Greer

#73. I'm never going to be cast as a 'Bond' girl. I mean, I could do it and I would love it. But I don't ooze sexuality.

Dree Hemingway

#74. Standing each by his monster, they looked at each other, and smiled

E. M. Forster

#75. Good sex is about knowing each other's deepest and kinkiest desires.

Abhijit Naskar

#76. No words. Just my finger pointing in silence. My finger silently saying, 'Unwrap me, darling.

James Lusarde

#77. The world of sexuality it finds is not entirely mature and pure, it is not human enough, only virile, rut, intoxication, restlessness, and weighed down by the old prejudices and arrogance with which men have disfigured and overburdened love.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#78. I think that sexuality is first and foremost the way that God chooses for us to be here on earth, to enjoy this energy of love in the physical plane.

Paulo Coelho

#79. The act of sex is healthy, normal, God-given. It's the emotions and entitlement that everyone attaches to it that is harmful.

Alessandra Torre

#80. Love, he does not know this word, and worse, he does not know that feeling in his existence. ~Emily

Pet Torres

#81. If a man or a woman starts "expecting" sex, then it is no longer special, and a lover will likely start to feel used.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#82. I love clean sheets. It's the simultaneous reminiscence of how they got dirtied to begin with, and hopeful anticipation of what stories they will live to tell next time you are standing fatefully in front of the washing machine.

Kristie LeVangie

#83. Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.

Margaret Mead

#84. It's very hard to believe that I'm feeling this. It's like I've been dead all these years and suddenly now...in a matter of days and hours, I came to life. I don't want to die again!

Dan Skinner

#85. At first the brain weighs a potential partner, and if the partner fits our ancestral wish list, we get a spike in the release of sex chemicals that makes us dizzy with a rush of unavoidable infatuation. It's the first step down the primeval path of pair-bonding.

Abhijit Naskar

#86. Train that bitch to love you, a bitch like that, she's the type you have to train, and even then, she'll still try to fuck around on you and test the boundaries, unless you have something no other man has, but to her you're a dick, and her she likes big dicks and muscular men, I can tell.

Stephen Demone

#87. Sexuality is possible without any understanding, without any meditation. Love is possible only with understanding. Compassion is possible only with understanding and meditation, understanding and awareness.

Rajneesh

#88. Sexuality is the door to love, and love is the door to silence, to the divine.

Swami Dhyan Giten

#89. I live my life in a way that I feel completely comfortable with. I don't struggle with who I am, who I date, who I love, what I say or what I stand for, not just sexuality but everything.

Sara Quin

#90. Love was a desire to cling to something difficult to get hold of in day-to-day life. It needed more attention and dedication, not always pleasurable, she concluded. Sensuality was by far easy, like food.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#91. Marriage is for the mature, not the infantile. The fusion of two different personalities requires emotional balance and control on the part of each person.

Archie Lee

#92. I felt like an animal, and animals don't know sin, do they?

Jess C. Scott

#93. And isn't love between two people better than hatred, in this world of violence and mourning? There seemed to me a fragile kindness in their love that survived through this poisonous war. Even though one of them hadn't.

Jennifer Ryan

#94. People who concern themselves with the rights of other adults who engage in consensual acts involving sex, love, and/or eating croissants together are damaged and in pain.

Rob Delaney

#95. I'm constantly exploring spirituality, sexuality, different aspects of love, whether it's romantic love or the love you have for your children. And love can be as devastating and destructive as it can be rejuvenating and life-giving. I guess I try to capture all of that.

Madonna Ciccone

#96. And if anyone manages to get their sexuality and their love lined up together, they are indeed lucky. It is as rare as a fine spring day in the country.

Hanif Kureishi

#97. A man can reach the heights of the Super-Man by entering the field of supra-sexuality, by knowing how to enjoy love, by knowing how to enjoy a woman, by knowing how to live with joy or with more emotion and less useless reasoning.

Samael Aun Weor

#98. Sexuality has always been for humans a form of communication, a way we express love and caring and bonding, not only a way we have children if we choose to.

Gloria Steinem