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Quotes About Celibate

Indeed, with iAm out of the picture, she was prepared to be celibate. Who else would she want, anyway? She had met her match—it was even decreed in the stars. That he didn't want her? Well, one's fate was not another's, no matter the emotions involved—
~ jr ward
Oh, I play this rather defeated father and husband who's going through a divorce.' 'You!' the actor is unable or unwilling to hide the contempt, outrage and disapproval in his voice. 'What the hell would you know about that?' I grin tightly and move on. So I should be playing nothing but celibate gay men? Is that how acting works?
~ Stephen Fry
Do I really look so pathetic to all of you? Like I couldn't possibly meet someone on my own? Half the people in the world are women. Odds are that at least a few of them would be willing to go out with me.' 'Damn right,' Phillip chimes in. 'And it's not like he's been celibate since he moved out. He had sex last night, FYI.' 'Don't help me, Phillip.
~ Jonathan Tropper
The dandy must be celibate, cloistral; is, indeed, but a monk with a mirror for beads and breviary—an anchorite, mortifying his soul that his body may be perfect.
~ Max Beerbohm
They speak of Jesus as having had no wife," Lavi told me. That was a conundrum I puzzled over for months. Was it because I was absent when he traveled about Galilee during his ministry? Was it because women were so often invisible? Did they believe making him celibate rendered him more spiritual? I found no answers, only the sting of being erased.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Exes should never, never go out with or marry other people but should remain celibate to the end of their days in order to provide you with a mental fallback position.
~ Helen Fielding
O love, O celibate. Nobody but me Walks the waist high wet. The irreplaceable Golds bleed and deepen, the mouths of Thermopylae.
~ Sylvia Plath
You have been my solace, my exorcism, but perhaps my place is beside his tomb, celibate and beautiful.
~ Storm Constantine
Now the light is rich and full and constant, bathing the fields, the garden, the gathering of friends. Here is a single afternoon in the lives that lie ahead. Two of these people are lovers, and one is expecting a child. Two of these people love one another, and are celibate. The air is so still, so still. These moments are perfect. No one speaks.
~ Sue Gee
He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split.
~ Mimi Rogers
Jaime smiled. "I hope you're not thinking of taking the black on us, sweet brother." Tyrion laughed. "What, me, celibate? The whores would go begging from Dorne to Casterly Rock. No, I just want to stand on top of the Wall and piss of the edge of the world.
~ George R.R. Martin
Phury was the only other possibility, but he was a celibate with a broken frickin' heart. Not really man-whore material.
~ J.R. Ward
The Reverend grinned, his fangs flashing. You know, I've heard this rumor… about a member of the Brotherhood who's celibate. Yeah, go figure, a warrior who abstains. And I've heard a few other things about this male. He's down to one leg. Has a scarred sociopath for a twin. You wouldn't by any chance know of such a Brother? Phury shook his head. Nope.
~ J.R. Ward
How many of the great mathematicians have been perverts?" None, was his answer. "Some lived celibate lives, usually on account of economic disabilities, but the majority were happily married. . . . The only mathematician discussed here whose life might offer something of interest to a Freudian is Pascal
~ Sylvia Nasar
Just because you've given up all masculine pride," he muttered, "doesn't mean I have to do the same." "Do you know what kind of men are able to keep their masculine pride?" Devon asked. "Celibate ones. The rest of us don't mind doing a little begging and appeasing, if it means not having to sleep alone.
~ Lisa Kleypas
It's impossible," he snapped. "Why?" "Because I'm Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can't be celibate. Everyone knows that.
~ Lisa Kleypas