Sexual Desire Quotes

• Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Witty, Sex, Men

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.42, BookBaby

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• Despite what you've been conditioned to believe, sexual desire is sacred and virtuous. When you and your beloved merge physically and emotionally, you go beyond the boundaries of the ego and experience timelessness, naturalness, playfulness and defenselessness .

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, Ego, Desire

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• When certain parts of our bodies are touched, certain enzymes and chemicals that trigger sexual desire are released into our system. The more our bodies are stimulated, the more chemicals are released and the greater our sexual desire grows until it becomes a virtually unstoppable flood.

  Myles Munroe

  Desire, Enzymes, Body

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• I've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like.

  Izabella Scorupco

  Desire, Comfortable

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• Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger.

  Mary Roach

  Desire, Hunger, States

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• Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied.

  Octavio Paz

  Ideas, Erotic, Desire

  Octavio Paz (1998). “An Erotic Beyond: Sade”, Harcourt

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• Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume?

  Richard Fleischer

  Sex, Desire, Crime

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• I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them.

  Dervla Murphy

  Real, Water, Desire

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• When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Desire, Culture, Failing

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• When you dress and behave in a way that is designed primarily to arouse sexual desire in men, you are committing pornography with your life.

  Joshua Harris

  Men, Desire, Dresses

  Joshua Harris, Shannon Harris (2010). “Sex Is Not the Problem (Lust Is) - A Study Guide for Women: Sexuality Purity in a Lust-Saturated World”, p.41, Multnomah

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• I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Morning, Creative, Desire

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• Sexual desire declines after four to seven years. That's been proven.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Years, Desire, Four

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• People often think of the unconscious mind as "the gut" or perhaps the Freudian "sink" of repressed sexual desires. It's neither one of those things. It's the repository of memory, and it's the seat of decision making.

  Nick Morgan

  Memories, Thinking, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In Lucretius, sexual desire is considered real and genuine, whereas love is illusory. Venus, the goddess who represents the power of sexual desire, is the font of love. She merely mocks lovers with mental images. Try as they might, lovers cannot satisfy themselves by gazing nor by rubbing against one another because the madness of love will always return; hence Lucretius' prescription to flee the mental images, that is, to ward off what feeds love, turning the mind elsewhere.

  Paul Ludwig Landsberg

  Real, Love Is, Mind

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• [Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that has its roots in infancy.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Roots, Desire

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• If she did experience sex-or something close to it-in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sex, School, Curiosity

  "Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami", www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2001.

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• There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. But experience? Don't tell me that. I'm not proud of it, but I don't have any sexual desire. And what sort of experience can a writer have if she doesn't feel passion? It'd be like a chef without an appetite.

  Haruki Murakami

  Passion, Desire, Proud

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• I think when you embrace celibacy other elements of the relationship have to come forth. There isn't an opportunity for you to be blinded by your sexual desires there is an opportunity to see things more clearly.

  Edwina Findley

  Opportunity, Thinking, Desire

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• Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

  Mortimer Adler

  Lost Friendship, Desire, Conjugal

  "Desires, Right & Wrong: The Ethics of Enough".

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• What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.

  Jock Sturges

  Children, Real, Artist

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• That "ol' black magic" is a fickle force. The chemistry of romantic love can trigger the chemistry of sexual desire and the fuel of sexual desire can trigger the fuel of romance. This is why it is dangerous to copulate with someone with whom you don't wish to become involved. Although you intend to have casual sex, you might just fall in love.

  Helen Fisher

  Falling In Love, Sex, Romantic Love

  Helen Fisher (2005). “Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love”, p.86, Macmillan

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• For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the prolongation of sexual desire but the shared lifelong cultivation of a romantic lightheartedness that softens conflicts and anxieties and focuses serious attention even as it undermines seriousness as such. It's hard to fall out of love so long as you're laughing together.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Laughing

  Robert C. Solomon (2006). “About Love: Reinventing Romance for Our Times”, p.343, Hackett Publishing

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• Sexual desire declines after four to seven years. That's been proven.Because it's the most compatible with our spiritual origins. Father, mother, small family - that's the way we've developed our souls, the way we've become, and the way we feel safe, protected and loved.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Spiritual, Mother, Father

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields which overlap into androgyny or different kinds of sexual desires. But because we live in a Western, patriarchal world, we have very little chance of exploring these gender possibilities.

  Kathy Acker

  Desire, Males, Female

  "Eve Experts". Real World Multimedia, realworldmultimedia.com, 2004.

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• Sex as desired by the class that dominates women is held by that class to be elemental, urgent, necessary, even if or even though it appears to require the repudiation of any claim women might have to full human standing. In the subordination of women, inequality itself is sexualized, made into the experience of sexual pleasure, essential to sexual desire.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Sex, Class, Feminist

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