Sexuality Quotes

• There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

  Gore Vidal

  Practice, People, Literature

  Gore Vidal (1990). “At home: essays, 1982-1988”, Vintage

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• It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.

  River Phoenix

  Phoenix, House, Strange

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• The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Making Love, Action

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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• It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

  Emma Goldman

  Sex, Men, Aquariums

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• I think it is funny that we were freer about sexuality in the 4th century B.C. It is a little disconcerting.

  Angelina Jolie

  Sex, Thinking, Littles

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• Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, World, Wells

  Die Fackel, No. 315/16, January 26, 1911.

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• It´s time we saw sex as the truly sacred art that it is. A deep meditation, a holy communion and a dance with the force of creation.

  Marcus Allen

  Art, Sex, Meditation

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• What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret.

  Michel Foucault

  Sex, Secret, Shadow

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.35, Vintage

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• The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Degrees, Spirit

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.271, Modern Library

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• Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

  Andy Warhol

  Sex, Funny Sex, All Time

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

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• Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

  Camille Paglia

  Love, Essence, Seduction

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.59, Vintage

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• Only the united beat of sex and heart can create ecstasy.

  Margery Allingham

  Sex, Heart, Beats

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• In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Psychedelic, Built

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• Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

  Susan Sontag

  Love, Simple, Desire

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• I think anything that has to do with sexuality makes people very interested.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Thinking, People

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• Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Literature, Adultery, Mass

  Journaux intimes (1887) 93

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• Love is born in sexuality but sexuality is not love. The lotus is born in the mud, but the lotus is not just mud. And if mud remains mud of course there are bound to be tears on the cheeks.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Tears, Lotuses

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• To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

  Naomi Wolf

  Body Image, Relinquishing, Asks

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• In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.

  Sigmund Freud

  Hypocrite, Matter, Ill

  Sigmund Freud (1962). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• It was Christianity, with its heartfelt resentment against life, that first made something unclean of sexuality: it threw filth on the origin, on the essential fact of our life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heartfelt, Essentials, Firsts

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• A split personality can never become non-greedy. It can try, but it can never become. A split personality can never go beyond anger. It can try, but it can never go beyond. A split personality can never go beyond sex. It can fight. So many monks in the monasteries are doing it. They don't go beyond sex; at the most their sexuality becomes perverted, their love becomes poisoned.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Fighting, Love Is

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• I view the prostitute as one of the few women who is totally in control of her fate, totally in control of the realm of sex. The lesbian feminists tried to take control of female sexuality away from men - but the prostitute was doing that all along.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Fate, Men

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• My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.

  Dusty Springfield

  Thinking, People, Problem

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• I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Thinking, Spontaneous, Natural

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality.

  Goldie Hawn

  Femininity, Not Afraid

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