Quotes About Abstinence

During abstinence, I'm frightened of rustling noises, people are hateful to me. I'm afraid of them. During the euphoria I love them all, but I prefer solitude.

It's all overrated man. Sex is only great if you're not getting any.

Those who practice restraint in body, word, and mind are surely in control of themselves.

Never? That's a hard word when it comes to whisky.

There's something about it that makes sense, Lent. You give something up, and everything's more joyful.

I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.

The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.

It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.

Besides, argued I, fasting makes the body cave in; hence the spirit caves in; and all thoughts born of a fast must necessarily be half-starved.

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I think drink is ugly, and therefore I have nothing to do with it.

Sometimes, when I have to make precious substances such as toenail cheese or belly-button fluff, I have to go without a shower or bath for days and days; I hate doing this because I soon feel dirty and itchy, and the only bright thing about such abstinence is how good it feels to have a shower at the end of it.

Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again.

Thanks to an emphasis on abstinence-only sex education, nine of the ten states with the highest rates of teen pregnancy are red states. In Mississippi, the sex education curriculum teaches students that homosexuality is illegal. In

Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.

I figure a lot of folks are probably looking to find out if Moses Malone is into that stuff, but the closest I come to drugs is drinking a Coca-Cola. I don't want that cocaine; it's not for me.

Let your diet be spare, your wants moderate, your needs few. So, living modestly, with no distracting desires, you will find content.

I have no desire to drink anymore. I just don't want to feel altered.

It's not for any purpose such as religion, health, or things like that, I just never felt I had the need or want to drink or do drugs.

I'm totally clean and sober my whole life.

I'm clean and sober.

Somebody once asked me how I define sobriety, and my response was 'liberation from dependence.'

You can't legislate sobriety.

Love is the only thing that changes abstinence from a prison into pleasure.