Libido Quotes

• If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.

  William S. Burroughs

  Psychics, Energy, Junk

  William S. Burroughs (1984). “Naked lunch”, Grove Pr

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• There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence.

  Peter Gay

  Children, Independent, Accomplishment

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• I have the libido of a 15-year-old boy...

  Megan Fox

  Sexy, Boys, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have the libido of a 15-year-old boy. My sex drive is so high. I'd rather have sex with Brian all the time than leave the house. He doesn't mind.

  Megan Fox

  Sex, Boys, Years

  "Megan Fox's boy's libido". www.cosmopolitan.com. June 4, 2008.

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• A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status - all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).

  J. G. Ballard

  Drama, Car, Desire

  Penthouse magazine Interview, September 1970.

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• I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways.

  Carl Jung

  Thinking, Views, Path

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• The much-vaunted sex appeal of American women is drawn from films, reviews and pin-ups, and is in large print fictitious. A recent medical survey in the United States showed that 75% of young American women are without strong sexual feeling and instead of satisfying their libido they seek pleasure narcissistically in exhibitionism, vanity, and the cult of fitness and health in a sterile sense.

  Julius Evola

  Strong, Sex, Vanity

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• Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.

  Peter Shepherd

  Wisdom, Creativity, Reality

  Peter Shepherd (2010). “Daring to Be Yourself”, p.198, DoctorZed Publishing

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• Another technique for fending off suffering is the employment of the displacements of libido which our mental apparatus permits of and through which its function gains so much in flexibility. The task here is that of shifting the instinctual aims in such a way that they cannot come up against frustration from the external world.

  Sigmund Freud

  Frustration, Suffering, Technique

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Thinking, Priests

  Anthony Burgess, Earl G. Ingersoll, Mary C. Ingersoll (2008). “Conversations with Anthony Burgess”, p.59, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• While there are a great many agents in nature which boost libido and enhance sexual function, chocolate alone actually promotes the brain chemistry of being in love.

  Chris Kilham

  Being In Love, Medicine, Chocolate

  Chris Kilham (2013). “Hot Plants: Nature's Proven Sex Boosters for Men and Women”, p.192, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question one is merely admitting to a store of unsatisfied libido to which something else must have happened, a kind of fermentation leading to sadness and depression.

  Sigmund Freud

  Sadness, Men, Sick

  Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.436, Courier Corporation

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• I know what it's like to have an inflated libido.

  Daniel Cudmore

  Knows

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• Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.

  Lou Reed

  People, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: The Power of Positive Drinking, Album: Growing Up in Public

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• Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary organism. Junk is a pain killer. A plant has no libido in the human or animal sense. Junk replaces the sex drive. Seeding is the sex of the plant and the function of opium is to delay seeding. Perhaps the intense discomfort of withdrawal is the transition from plant back to animal, from a painless, sexless, timeless state back to sex and pain and time, from death back to life.

  William S. Burroughs

  Sex, Pain, Animal

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• Real competition can drive up testosterone, which boosts libido.

  Helen Fisher

  Real, Competition, Boost

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• Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are impervious to the repugnance of others. It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido... The junky's shame disappears with his nonsexual sociability which is also dependent on libido.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dirty, Feet, Veins

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• All her life she'd been warned that men were slaves to their desires, that they held their impulses in barely controlled check. A woman--a lady--must be very, very careful of her actions so she did not put spark to the gunpowder that was a man's libido.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Men, Desire, Gunpowder

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• Libido, fascination, too much oral defecation. White trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy.

  Marilyn Manson

  Cake, White, Social Taboos

  Song: Everlasting Cocksucker

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• Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido!

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Important, Movement

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.

  Mike Huckabee

  Smart, Intelligent, Educated

  "Mike Huckabee: Democrats Tell Women ‘They Cannot Control Their Libido’ Without The Government" By Laura Bassett, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2014.

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• The transformation of object-libido into narcissistic libido which thus takes place obviously implies an abandonment of sexual aims, a desexualization - a kind of sublimation, therefore.

  Sigmund Freud

  Narcissistic, Transformation, Kind

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The Western world generally has lost the concept of man as a creature made to the image and likeness of God, and reduced him either to a component part of the universe, to an economic animal or to a "physiological bag filled with psychological libido." Once man became materialized and atomized in Western thinking, it was only natural for a totalitarianism to arise to gather up the fragments into a new totality and substitute the collective man for the individual man who was isolated from all social responsibilities.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

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• Anyone buying this book is going to be out a tidy sum if he is sucked in by the title. I wish I could write a real sexy book that would be barred from the mails. Apparently nothing whets a reader's appetite for literature more than the news that the author has been thrown into a federal pokey for disturbing the libido of millions of Americans.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Sexy, Real

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• Technical progress and more comfortable living permit the systematic inclusion of libidinal components into the realm of commodity production and exchange. But no matter how controlled the mobilization of instinctual energy may be (it sometimes amounts to a scientific management of libido), no matter how much it may serve as a prop for the status quo - it is also gratifying to the managed individuals, just as racing the outboard motor, pushing the power lawn mower, and speeding the automobile are fun.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Fun, Racing, Progress

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 75), 1964.

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