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Quotes About Sex

And in a flash I understood the meaning of sex. It is a craving of mingling of consciousness, whose symbol is the mingling of bodies. Every time a man and a woman slake their thirst in the strange waters of the other's identity, they glimpse the immensity of their freedom.
~ Colin Wilson
Love is as primary a phenomenon as sex. Normally, sex is a mode of expression for love. Sex is justified, even sanctified, as soon as, but only as long as, it is a vehicle of love. Thus love is not understood as a mere side-effect of sex; rather, sex is a way of expressing the experience of that ultimate togetherness which is called love.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Love is as primary a phenomenon as sex. Normally, sex is a mode of expression for love. Sex is justified, even sanctified, as soon as, but only as long as, it is a vehicle of love.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Rapp pulled a woebegone face. "My doctor tells me I might never be able to have sex again." Anna tried her best not to smile. "The divorce papers will be on your desk in the morning.
~ Vince Flynn
He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.
~ Virginia Woolf
At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial – and any question about sex is that – one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker. Fiction here is likely to contain more truth than fact.
~ Virginia Woolf
Orlando was unaccountably disappointed. She had thought of literature all these years (her seclusion, her rank, her sex must be her excuse) as something wild as the wind, hot as fire, swift as lightning; something errant, incalculable, abrupt, and behold, literature was an elderly gentleman in a grey suit talking about duchesses.
~ Virginia Woolf
and I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in; and, thinking of the safety and prosperity of the one sex and of the poverty and insecurity of the other and of the effect of tradition and of the lack of tradition upon the mind of a writer
~ Virginia Woolf
And if it be true that it is one of the tokens of the fully developed mind that it does not think specially or separately of sex, how much harder it is to attain that condition now than ever before. ... No age can ever have been as stridently sex-conscious as our own ...
~ Virginia Woolf
At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial—and any question about sex is that—one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.
~ Virginia Woolf
but what was surprising and difficult of explanation was the fact that sex—woman, that is to say—also attracts agreeable essayists, light-fingered novelists, young men who have taken the M.A. degree; men who have taken no degree; men who have no apparent qualification save that they are not women.
~ Virginia Woolf
when a subject is highly controversial — and any question about sex is that — one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.
~ Virginia Woolf
Sex and its nature might well attract doctors and biologists; but what was surprising and difficult of explanation was the fact that sex—woman, that is to say—also attracts agreeable essayists, light-fingered novelists, young men who have taken the M.A. degree; men who have taken no degree; men who have no apparent qualification save that they are not women.
~ Virginia Woolf
At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial - and any question about sex is that - one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.
~ Virginia Woolf
All this pitting of sex against sex . . . all this claiming of superiority and imparting of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are 'sides,' and it is . . . of the utmost importance to walk up to a platform and receive from the hands of the Headmaster himself a highly ornamental pot.
~ Virginia Woolf
If sex is the sermon made of art, love is the lady of that tower.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
He was an amateur of sex lore
~ Vladimir Nabokov
They were sisters to my kind," he said. They were female sex demons and very powerful beings, some of whom had incited an ancient war between the demon realm and the Nephilim.
~ Lara Adrian
You aren't human. Your mother is a...sex demon." She tripped over that a little, because seriously, that was one of those things you never thought you'd say. {Location 2966}
~ Larissa Ione
She'd had sex with a demon. Tayla swallowed bile and tried to keep her stomach from heaving. She needed to shower. And douche.
~ Larissa Ione
Limos is nursing one hell of a headache, and Arik wants to shove an M-80 up your ass." "Kinky," Than said, "but I'm new to the sex thing. I'm not ready for hardcore yet.
~ Larissa Ione
Yes", she said her voice dripping with sarcasm. "That's exactly what I'm saying, in fact let's try sex again." She leaped to her feet and torn open her jeans. "Maybe my magic vagina will cure you of all the traumatic acts my family has inflected on you.
~ Larissa Ione
His mate keeps him in line." "Pfft." Hades waved his hand in dismissal. "She knows who rules the roost." Lilliana laughed. "Cat does." Hades's shoulders slumped. "Yeah." Suddenly, he grinned and waggled his brows. "But she has sex with me, so it's all good.
~ Larissa Ione
He might need to pull a new trick out of his bag of forgive me tactics. Weird. He'd always thought sex could fix everything Son of a bitch, he was growing as a person, wasn't he? And Shade said it would never happen. Asshole.
~ Larissa Ione