Sex Death Quotes

#1. My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them.

James Hillman

#2. The End of the Affair is a good movie because it about things, things that really matter. Love, sex, death. Have you ever seen romance?

Stephen Rea

#3. What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words the human condition.

Glen Duncan

#4. Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#5. Sex, death and war. And justice. There's no shortage of lyrics there.

Lemmy Kilmister

#6. When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth - sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being hurt and confused.

Barbara Ess

#7. I hope the guy who came up with the phrase 'sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll' rots in hell, I'd like to change it so it makes more sense: 'sex death and rock 'n' roll'

Gene Simmons

#8. The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

Edmund White

#9. I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I'm willing to die no one can master me.

Walter Mosley

#10. You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. The antidote to death was and always would be the heat and fury of life itself.

David Hewson

#12. My body is my own," I said. "I may choose to share it with someone, but it's not for sale or for hire, nor is it a reward. I'd rather starve to death than use it as such.

Erica Dakin

#13. Sex is one of the most personal things we do as people. To have someone who says she loves you limit how you express yourself in the bedroom is like a small death. It kills the soul.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#14. Injun Joe studied the body for a moment, his eyes sad. Then he said, "I'd rather go in my sleep, I think." He glanced back at me. "What about you?"
"I want to be stepped on by an elephant while having sex with identical triplet cheerleaders," I said.

Jim Butcher

#15. Every time I ask questions about sex, I always end up asking questions about death.

Christian Boltanski

#16. Have you any idea how hard it is to go nine months out of the year with no sex when you're married to such a fine piece of male anatomy that he should have been the god of fertility instead of the god of death?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#17. Too commonly sex does not have the dignity of a sacramental event because sex is thought to be the means of the search for self rather than the expression and communication of one who has already found himself, and is free from resort to sex in the frantic pursuit of his own identity.

William Stringfellow

#18. I guess I must just be obsessed with death. Apparently you think about it a lot more as you get older. Maybe you could chart how when I was in my 20s I talked about sex all the time, and in my 40s it's just death.

David Shrigley

#19. I happen to have a certain fondness for existing
soda wouldn't have that lovely fizzy feeling if you were dead. Think of all the things you would miss: Cartoons, music, movies, video games, music, art, fingernail growth, sex ... well, perhaps not sex, depending on how weird your mortician is.

Jhonen Vasquez

#20. Hustling sex for cash ain't dangerous if you learn the tricks quick, and that means puttin' yourself in a different mindset. Always scout for an exit for when you need it. Act confident and tough and you won't get hurt. Being scared or nervous will get you cut up and stuffed in a fuckin' bag.

Jon Michaelsen

#21. There's no love in you because there's no sex in you. Sex is light and fertility and life and communication! You only have this ... pornography and submission and blackness and death! You're like a faggot!

Mary Gaitskill

#22. I have no use for your body, for within its youth lies a rotten wench already deceased.

Keisha Keenleyside

#23. But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.

J.P. Donleavy

#24. Sex as the vital antagonist to death - isn't the orgasm the primal spark of life? I know of many instances in which sexual feelings arise in order to neutralize fears of death.

Irvin D. Yalom

#25. When you start thinking about death more than sex, you know you're getting old.

Nick Nolte

#26. So much adrenaline, emotion and futility hung in the air, throttling our bones, stirring our blood, making us starved, wild animals. Death made sex feel much more alive.

Karina Halle

#27. And love? Well, if sex is sweet and death is bitter, love is both. Love will always and forever break your heart.

Augustus Hill

#28. We are Sex Bob-Omb and we are here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff!

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#29. I was the only one who knew what she was really like. My grandma was one evil cu**".

Stuart Francis

#30. Like sexual intercourse, death needs foreplay.

Martin Page

#31. I am neither man nor angel. I have no sex nor limit. I am knowledge itself. I am He. I have neither anger nor hatred. I have neither pain nor pleasure. Death or birth I never had. For I am Knowledge Absolute, and Bliss Absolute. I am He, my soul, I am He!

Swami Vivekananda

#32. I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.

Florence Welch

#33. Maybe that was why the French called orgasms "las petites morts": because the things that bring us passion tend to slip past our defenses, to creep insidiously into every facet of our consciousnesses and kill us as ruthlessly, and efficiently, as any drug.

Nenia Campbell

#34. I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.

Courtney Love

#35. It took me a second to figure out how to read Wade's neat handwriting backward, but I eventually read, I had sex in a death barn, and all I got was this temporary tattoo.

Molly Harper

#36. rain is acid...
sex is death....

Hunter S. Thompson

#37. The bastard kissed her. She was so mad, she bit him hard enough to draw blood. Raphael pulled back, lip already beginning to swell. "We are no longer even, Elena. You're now in debt."
"You can deduct it from my slow and painful death.

Nalini Singh

#38. Even though we look at the past through the lens of distance and think that because people are wearing different clothes or have different technology, their experiences are different, it's all the same, right? Our experience of love and sex and death are the same in any time period.

Liz Goldwyn

#39. Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage!

Madeline Kahn

#40. It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.

Ariel Gore

#41. The point was, Eve supposed, no matter who you were - sex, race, tax bracket - death leveled it all out.

J.D. Robb

#42. We spent today sending men to hell. What's more natural than to pass the night dreaming of procreating a few more to take their place?

David Hewson

#43. Multiply your death, divide by sex, add up your violence, what do you get?

Marilyn Manson

#44. The thing about death is that it's embarrassing. No one wants to focus on it for very long. We're happy to talk about sex all day long but no one wants to talk about the moment where it all ends.

Laurel Nakadate

#45. I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.

Walker Percy

#46. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.

Woody Allen

#47. [Sex] is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people - and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once.

Kathleen Winsor

#48. Masochism seemed to make sense to me in terms of the struggle for self-consciousness of the slave in the struggle unto death.
'I feel like sex, I mean, giving myself, helps me. Giving my whole self to someone until I forget who I am helps me deal with my problems.

Tamara Faith Berger

#49. I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

Peter Steele

#50. Life after death. Sex after marriage. While claims are made for the existence of both, the sources are oftentimes unreliable and the evidence, at best, anecdotal.

J.D. Lexx

#51. For these are the things of Man: Sex, Lust and Death.

Julian Lorr

#52. I don't think women are made only for sex; they can turn men into wolves and make them fight till the death.

M.F. Moonzajer

#53. It's a way of talking about lust without talking about lust, he told them. It is a way of talking about sex, and fear of sex, and death, and fear of death, and what else is there to talk about?

Neil Gaiman

#54. they told her, "fear the reaper."
she laughed to herself and muttered, 'baby, death ain't nothing' more than a quick fuck.
a little bit of silence after he comes.

Taylor Rhodes

#55. I stood my ground, staring straight into his eyes. "You didn't do anything to me. Since when is sex so life or death to you?" -Abby Abernathy
"Since it was with you!" -Travis Maddox

Jamie McGuire

#56. Panic is a synonym for being; in its delays, in its swerving and rushing syntax, its frantic lists and questions, it fends off time and loss. Its opposite is oblivion: not the tranquil oblivion of sleep but the threatening oblivions of sex and death.

Louise Gluck

#57. The music is happy; the laughter is happy. Everything feels ecstatic and desperate. Blurrily, I think of sex, and I think of death. I realize: Every moment of joyous celebration contains the seed of death.

Laura Rose Wagner

#58. Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea of nature demands that the giver of life should die at the moment of giving.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#59. Just as trees bear their fruit before winter, just as bamboo grass produces its seeds just before it withers, sex is simply a struggle with death on the human level.

Kobo Abe

#60. Jeez, Riley Bear are you trying to kill me?
Yep,then I get everything. Death by sex, I'm being kind though, it's a pretty good way to go.

Kirsty Moseley

#61. It must be added that the men who most respect embryonic life are the same ones who do not hesitate to send adults to death in war.

Simone De Beauvoir

#62. Sex is the glue of relationships, Caitlin, and it's what life is all about. It's the opposite of death, of giving up, of getting swamped by... What's out there. See it as symbolic.

Mark Chadbourn

#63. I was no longer sexually vulnerable to the death-by-sex Fae Prince.
Jericho Barrons was my poison now.

Karen Marie Moning

#64. All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.

Ray Winstone

#65. From the reign of Emperor Constantine to the present, the Christian notion that sexual love brings spiritual death has been the cornerstone of Western sex law.

David Berkowitz

#66. If you're a Shakespeare fan, isn't that a way to negotiate sex and death?

Peter Greenaway

#67. I'd like to get the sex thing over with, but I realized I'm not done with it.You should never will a change in your work-you have to work an idea to death. I often find that the best things happen when you're near the end.

John Currin

#68. Funerals often make us want sex - it's one in the eye for death.

Thomas Harris

#69. The closest I ever came to death was masturbating with a 104-degree temperature.

Larry David

#70. What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

Susan Sontag

#71. Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked
By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
looks like freedom but it feels like death
it's something in between, I guess
it's closing time.

Leonard Cohen

#72. The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.

Henry Miller

#73. People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged NOT to read this book. Buy it, yes, but don't read it. [Regarding "The Fool's Progress"]

Edward Abbey

#74. Fiction had never been Jackson's thing. Facts seemed challenging enough without making stuff up. What he discovered was that the great novels of the world were about three things - death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale.

Kate Atkinson

#75. I've stabbed a man to death. Had sex with a stranger on camera. My soul was stained black with so many crimes, but I couldn't bear to watch him die. Maybe that made me a coward, worse than Vinny. He had been sadistic. I had been selfish.

Lana Sky

#76. Well ... yeah. It just goes to show. (Peabody)
Show what (Dallas)
You should get dressed up, go dancing, drink grown-up cocktails, and have sex as much as you can before you're dead. (Peabody)

J.D. Robb

#77. Venice was a hallucinatory incubus, the most artificial environment in the world: Disneyland for grown-ups. It reeked of sex and its putrescent partner, death. Thomas Mann had caught its rouged, feverish aura perfectly.

Jonathan Galassi

#78. Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.

Nick Mancuso

#79. Keep in mind that this appears in the same book of the Bible that approves the death sentence for a child who curses his parents, owners of oxen who injure someone through the owner's negligence, anybody who works or kindles a fire on Sunday, and anyone who has sex with an animal.

Jim Butcher

#80. my story is that more than sex or death or the remote possibility of God, there was one thing more fundamental to my way of being in the world than any other, and that was the all-pervading influence of a mother; and not just her influence, but her presence and her love.

Michael Harding

#81. I am waltzing with death, flirting with him, but he stands there smiling and saying nothing because he does not need to woo or be wooed: he knows he gets us all in the end.

Nenia Campbell

#82. She wondered if she had grown obsessed with sex. She admitted to thinking about it almost all the time ... "And if I'm not thinking about sex, I'm thinking about death," she added bitterly. "Sometimes both at the same time.

D.M. Thomas

#83. In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.

Sam Llewellyn

#84. Go away and bleed to death,' said his onetime saviour sharply. 'On behalf of the female sex I feel I may cheer every lesion.

Dorothy Dunnett

#85. To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.

Stephen King

#86. Merchandisers, by embedding subliminal trigger devices in media, are able to evoke a strong emotional relationship between, say, a product perceived in an advertisement weeks before and the strongest of all emotional stimuli - love (sex) and death.

Wilson Bryan Key

#87. Abortion occurs so frequently in my stories. Abortion sort of synthesizes both sex and death. To have sex and death placed as close to one another as possible is always a goal of mine.

Chuck Palahniuk

#88. A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other ... until death do them join.

Elbert Hubbard

#89. Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.

Mal Peet

#90. Sex, like death, was important, and yet why did no one seem to care enough to ask the questions that mattered?

Sharon Guskin

#91. I don't like good kids being corrupted by bad ones, Santa never does".

The Santa Killer

Stuart Francis

#92. The feel of her skin as she struggled beneath, the life inside, the death without. The breaching of life and death, of survival uncaged inside him: a dark beast with violence and sex in its soul.
In his soul.

Mav Skye

#93. People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?

P.D. James

#94. For the satiated, both sex and speed are pretty boring until the element of danger and even death is introduced.

Marshall McLuhan

#95. Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

R.D. Laing

#96. For a man to get married and stay married, he must detach from and disavow the three things that bind him to reality: sex, travel, and near-death experiences.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#97. Joe" I said. "It's Stephanie."
"Does this involve death?"
"Not yet."
"Does this involve sex?"
"Not yet."
"I can't imagine why else you'd be calling me.

Janet Evanovich

#98. Although humans tend to view sex as mainly a fun recreational activity sometimes resulting in death, in nature it is a far more serious matter.

Dave Barry

#99. A Life in Men is a joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, as well as a meditation on love, sex, and, most important, friendship, which can overcome time, distance, and even death.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#100. So then, what do you believe in?
Sex and death. Two things that come once in my lifetime. But at least
after death you're not nauseous.

Woody Allen