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To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next. — Barbara Tuchman

Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. — H.L. Mencken

I'm not unlucky at love, just incredibly lucky with celibacy. — Tim Heaton

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of natural law. — Annie Besant

Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days. — Mata Amritanandamayi

It's cooler to be strong. — Lady Gaga

A love of celibacy and a zeal for martyrdom does not bode well for the future of the sect." - regarding the Essenians — Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield

There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source of great relief. — Steven Erikson

Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death. — Franz Kafka

There is a line between sexualityand promiscuity, and the line is closer to celibacy than not. — Betty Jane Wylie

Celibacy is nothing if not abnormal. The human body and brain are not made for such programming. Whatever normal is, it does not include celibacy. — Darrel Ray

Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord. — Pope Benedict XVI

I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness. — John Steinbeck

For both Protestants and Catholics, and whether or not absolute continence is demanded of the clergy, celibacy remains a blessed spiritual state. — Meir Soloveichik

Hell, at this rate she'd end up in the mental institution by the end of the year. Cause: Celibacy. — Jennifer Probst

I don't talk like that about men because I prefer celibacy to bullshit. — C.D. Reiss

Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats. — Sean O Faolain

Fifteen years of celibacy because his bear refused to accept anyone but their mate. — Rayne Rachels

What kinda vows? Celibacy? I thought, though I didn't say it. Nobody keeps a celibacy vow anyway. — Cassandra Rose Clarke

Celibacy is exhausting. — Beatrice Wood

Might I have had my own will, I would not have married Wisdom herself, if she would have had me. — Michel De Montaigne

When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it. — Lena Dunham

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond. — Thomas Love Peacock

To some extent a life of celibacy is a picture of how all of us are to live, containing our passions for God's purposes. — Eric Metaxas

Loyalty is like the Doctrine of Celibacy - easy to proclaim but damned difficult to live by. — Michael Dobbs

Most people that commit to a life of celibacy weren't leaving that much on the table in the first place. — Dov Davidoff

Sex swims in marriage, while sex sinks in sin of being single. — Anthony Liccione

Oh my God!" Lindsay cried. "I swear I shall practice celibacy every day for the rest of my life! I swear it, Anais. — Charlotte Featherstone

Elders of the Creedish church made celibacy sound as easy as choosing not to play basketball.
Just say no. — Chuck Palahniuk

Couldn't handle the celibacy? — Anonymous

He'd tried celibacy. The only problem was the lack of sex. — Mark Haddon

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command. — Hans Kung

Charley Bristow paced his small living room. Celibacy was burning a hole in his pants. — Dana Glossbrenner

I never cheated on my wife. I took seriously those vows of celibacy. — Emo Philips

The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy. — H.L. Mencken

I don't do that. With anyone." "You're celibate?" "No. Celibacy is a choice. I'm asexual. I don't get those feelings. — Seanan McGuire

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. — Socrates

To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy. — Robert Green Ingersoll

God dwelled in sex and marriage just as much as He dwelled in celibacy and service, — Sierra Simone

At night in bed, they talked. He, of the bees. She of the birds. Never of the birds and bees. — LaVyrle Spencer

Identifying with the results is very dangerous, especially for those trying to control the senses or practice celibacy. — B.T. Swami

I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives. — Roger Lewis

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy. — Isaac Newton

Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities. — Mason Cooley

Anandmayi must have insisted. If there is one woman who can entice Parvateshwar into breaking his vow of celibacy, it is her. 'My — Amish Tripathi

Celibacy was a choice; asexual was just who he was. — Sam Burke

Christians throughout history have affirmed that lifelong celibacy is a spiritual gift and calling, not a path that should be forced upon someone. — Matthew Vines

There once was a man who was sore
'Cuz his wife wouldn't open the door.
Celibacy
is just not for me
Let me in, you cock-teasing whore. — Jake Wizner

Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary. — Richard Whately

The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy. — William P. Leahy

Celibacy." Kingsley pronounced the word like a curse. It was a curse. "I thought you were a sadist. When did you become a masochist? — Tiffany Reisz

Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse. — Peter De Vries

Listening to Beethoven also is sensuality, but when you have said 'sex' you have said all. A man who can give up sex can give up Beethoven. — Nanavira Thera

Sweetheart, what gives you the idea that you're worth a half-year of celibacy?"
"I may not be; you're the only one who can answer that. — Lisa Kleypas

Try to force celibacy upon yourself and your dreams will become sexual, they will have a quality of sexuality. — Rajneesh

A vow of celibacy was easy to hold when there was no temptation. — Nalini Singh

God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another. — Martin Luther

Celibacy sucks, no pun intended. — Lois Greiman

Love me until Venus gasps with envy.
Love me again until Eros swears celibacy. — Gloria D. Gonsalves

I loaded Brady into the Celibacy Wagon — Amber L. Johnson

Good God. I don't believe St. Vincent and the word 'celibacy' have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before. — Lisa Kleypas

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures. — Samuel Johnson

Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty. — Timothy Radcliffe

The sin against nature [is] - compulsory celibacy — Francois Mauriac