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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
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
Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.
— Sean O Faolain
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
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
Just say no. — Chuck Palahniuk
Couldn't handle the celibacy?
— Anonymous
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 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
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
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
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
'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
"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
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
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