“Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.”

“True silence is the speech of lovers. For only love knows its beauty, completeness and utter joy.”

Catherine Doherty (1896–1985) Religious order founder; Servant of God

“Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

“Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled.”

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer

“Homosexuality is a crime against Nature. All Nature declares the purpose of the instinct for sexual union is reproduction and thus, preservations of the specie. The overpowering male sex drive must be channeled toward possession of females, as well as elements such as territory and power, which are necessary to keep them.”

David Lane (white nationalist) book 88 Precepts

“People who love science fiction really do love sex.”

Susie Bright (1958) American writer and feminist

“A universal love is not only psychologically possible; it is the only complete and final way in which we are able to love.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin book The Phenomenon of Man

“The new community which the capitalists are now constructing will be a very complete and absolute community; and one which will tolerate nothing really independent of itself.”

G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist

“When in love, the sight of the beloved has a completeness which no words and no embrace can match: a completeness which only the act of making love can temporarily accommodate”

John Berger book Ways of Seeing

“Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist