Quotes about sex
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“Do you understand? Do you see the forest through the trees? Do you not see what I am no longer not saying to you? If so—congratulations! Prepare to have sex constantly.”

Chuck Klosterman book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Understanding, Tree

“The most Beautiful people are the ones that don't look like one race or even one sex”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

People, Beauty

“I'd never seen a guy my own age play the piano. It was like sex and musical theatre fused together.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: Dramarama

Age, Music, Guy

“Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.”

David Lodge book The British Museum Is Falling Down

The British Museum Is Falling Down ([1965] 1983), ch. 4, p. 56. ISBN 0140062149

Life, Children, Way, Literature

“Rache! Glad you're… Tink loves a duck!" he said, wings clattering. "It stinks of sex in here. God, woman. I leave you alone for one night, and you're humping the ghost." - Jenks to Rachel”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Black Magic Sanction

Love, God, Night

“Come on, let's get you a drink. How's your love life, anyway?

Oh God. Why can't married people understand that this is no longer a polite question to ask? We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, "How's your marriage going? Still have sex?”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

Love, Life, God, Marriage

“Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have around the Home.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

Source: Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have around the Home

Home, Baby, Personality

“Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules on sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Friday

Source: Friday (1983), Ch. XXI, p. 214

“Well, that depends, I suppose. I heard someone once say that men dance the same way they have sex. So, if you want everyone here to think you're the kind of guy who just sits around and—"
He stood up. "Let's dance.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Blues

Men, Way, Guy, Thinking

“We don't need teenage bouda sex fiends as interns.
How do you know he is a sex fiend?
He is fifteen and he's a bouda. Hello?”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

“I was just thinking if the sex with you is one-tenth as fun as arguing with you. I'll be one happy bastard."

"You'll never find out. You--------"

He kissed me.

~ Jack Travis & Ella Varner”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

Happiness, Kiss, Thinking

“.

"Most times, when I'm having sex, I'd rather be reading."
This was, I admit, a strange thing to say on a second date.
I guess I was just giving you a warning.
"Most times when I'm reading," you said, "I'd rather be having sex".”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Time, Reading

“I only had sex with her because I'm in love with you.”

Bret Easton Ellis The Rules of Attraction

Source: The Rules of Attraction

Love

“Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Happiness, Feeling

“I judge you not by the sex of whom you love… but by how you love them.
-Layla, page 306”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

Love

“If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.”

Camille Paglia (1947) American writer

Women, Reality

“Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.”

Azar Nafisi book Reading Lolita in Tehran

Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran

“You know how it is - some hot guys don't make your hormones go crazy, while some unattractive guys have massive sex appeal. This guy had it all.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

Guy

“.

I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“I don’t think my sister is old enough to have sex.”

“V, she’s the same age you are.”

He frowned for a moment. Was she? Or had he been born first?”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Unleashed

Age, Thinking, Sister

“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 book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Love, School

“This is my mother’s wedding,”«" she said. "We’re not going to have sex. At all."
"But ‘at all’ is my favorite way to have sex.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Way, Wedding

“I flip ahead in the textbook. There's an interesting chapter about acid rain. Nothing about sex. We aren't scheduled to learn about that until eleventh grade.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Learning

“Eric was usually pretty Anglo-Saxon about sex.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: Dead to the World

“Sex pleasure in woman, as I have said, is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.”

Simone de Beauvoir book The Second Sex

Bk. 2, Pt.. 4, Ch. 3: Sexual Initiation. p. 396
The Second Sex (1949)

Pleasure

“I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.”

George Burns (1896–1996) American comedian, actor, and writer

“She had not made a decision to give up sex, only the clamor of romance, because it was exhausting her, doing her no good and too much harm…”

Michelle Herman (1955) American writer

Source: Dog

Decision

“Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.”

Don DeLillo book Cosmopolis

Source: Cosmopolis

Love

“To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.”

Stephen King book 'Salem's Lot

Source: 'Salem's Lot

Death, Way, Nature, Thinking

“This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

“Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Soul, Sense

“She places her hands around my neck and rests her head on my shoulder. I can smell the sex on her, and my hope is that she can smell the love on me.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Love, Hope

“Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.”

Drew Barrymore (1975) American actress, director and producer

People, Beauty, Kiss, Passion

“I dreamed that Curran and I killed a dinosaur and then had sex in the dirt.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Dreams

“Somewhere between fear and sex passion is. The way there is sudden. The way out is worse.”

Jeanette Winterson book The Passion

Source: The Passion (1987)

Fear, Way, Passion

“Women need a reason for having sex, men just need a place”

Billy Graham (1918–2018) American Christian evangelist

Women, Men

“Poor me. There's nothing so sweet as wallowing in it is there? Wallowing is sex for depressives.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

“Which do you prefer, she says. Sex or Violence?
I try to smile. What's the difference, really.”

Will Christopher Baer Kiss Me, Judas

Source: Kiss Me, Judas

Smile

“The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Love

“Here's a basic difference between Morelli and me. My first thought was always of cake. His first thought was always of sex. Don't get me wrong. I like sex… a lot. But it's never going to replace cake.”

Janet Evanovich book Eleven on Top

Source: Eleven on Top

“Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.”

Henry Miller book Tropic of Cancer

Source: Tropic of Cancer

War

“Frequency of sex – Women sometimes wanted; men always needed.”

Nicholas Sparks book At First Sight

Source: At First Sight

Women, Men

“Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down to a naked man who's nailed to a cross? It's like a bad leather bar.”

John Waters (1946) American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer

Pleasure, Thinking

“Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.”

Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State

Valentine's Day

“Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

Love

“That was the best not-sex ever.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

“The difference between sex and death is, with death you can do it alone and nobody's going to make fun of you.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Also found in "Quotations According to Woody Allen" http://books.google.com/books?id=kd41AQAAIAAJ&q=%22quotations+according%22#search_anchor from the New York Times, 1 December 1975.

Death

“Jason once told me that eye contact is the most intimacy two people can have -- forget sex -- because the optic nerve is technically an extension of the brain, and when two people look into each other's eyes, it's brain-to-brain.”

Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus!

Source: Hey Nostradamus!

People, Forgetting

“Sex and death. Two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you're not nauseous.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Sleeper (1973)

Death

“Can officially confirm that the way to a man's heart these days is not through beauty, food, sex, or alluringness of character, but merely the ability to seem not very interested in him.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

Food, Beauty, Way, Heart

“Ethan gave me an admiring look that wasn't about sex, but about that guy moment when they realize you are not just another pretty face, but maybe, just maybe you can be cute, petite, and one of the guys all at the same time.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Hit List

Source: Hit List

Guy, Time

“I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.”

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer

"Oscar Wilde: On the Skids Again" (1987)
1980s, At Home (1988)

“It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

World, Star

“The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Love

“If you don't want to have sex, I don't want to talk about our feelings."
He scrubbed his hand through his hair, looking confused. "Well, that's for damn sure the first time a woman's ever said that to me.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

Feeling, Time

“Life is like sex. It’s not always good, but its always worth trying.”

Pamela Anderson (1967) Canadian-American model, producer, author, former showgirl

Life

“Several of the girls at the party had had sex, something which sounded appealing but only if it could happen with blindfolds in a time warp plus amnesia”

Aimee Bender (1969) Novelist, short story writer

Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Girl, Time

“Some guys look at you like they only want sex. Jace looks at you like you've had sex - it was great and now you're just friends. Drives girls crazy. Know what I mean?" Yes. Clary thought. "No." Clary said.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Guy, Girl

“I like sex for breakfast, kid. I eat early and often.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

“Adeline had come to Christianity the same way she had come to sex and smoking:through peer pressure. Thinking about her six kids and her smoker's hack, she wondered if perhaps peer pressure didn't always lead to the best habits.”

Christopher Moore book Coyote Blue

Source: Coyote Blue

Way, Thinking

“She was a nice little girl, simple and true, and tremendously frightened of sex. I told her it was beautiful. I wanted to prove this to her. She let me prove it, but I was too impatient and proved nothing.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Beauty, Girl

“As if we’d have sex in a cave surrounded by hordes of demons. This is reality, not your fevered imagination.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Imagination, Reality

“Something is wrong here: sex has been with us since the human race began its existence, yet I would estimate that 90 percent of human beings still suffer enormous inhibitions in this area.”

Xaviera Hollander (1943) Dutch prostitute

Suffering

“I don't see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn't anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Friday

Source: Friday

Life, People, Food

“They’ve got as much sex appeal as a road accident.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Alone-sex didn't count. It's like the difference between thinking to yourself or having a good conversation with someone----the pleasure is in the exchange."

-Liberty Jones”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Sugar Daddy

Pleasure, Thinking

“Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

“If you're not a sex symbol, you're in trouble.”

Helen Gurley Brown (1922–2012) American author, editor, publisher, and businesswoman

“Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

“I didn’t hear him behind me. I felt him. Electric. Wild. One foot in the swamp. Never going to crawl all the way out.
And I wanted to have sex with whatever he was. Where was I supposed to put that in my head?”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Faefever

Way

“As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Source: My Religion

Joy, Selfishness

“It looks like Animal and Miss piggy had sex," I said. "And this was the spawn."
"My eyes!" Boomer cried. "My eyes! I can't stop seeing it now that you've said it!”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Animals

“You're the only man I know who can have sex with a woman who looks that good and be in this bad a mood ten minutes later. Damn, didn't you know sex is supposed to make you feel better? (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

Feeling, Mood

“Naked human sex, ew! (Xirena)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Sins of the Night

“If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

1950 entry, quoted in Kate Moses, "The Real Sylvia Plath," Salon.com (2000-06-01) http://dir.salon.com/story/books/feature/2000/06/01/plath2/ <br class="br">The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000) <br class="br">Variant: If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time. <br class="br">Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Thinking, Tear, Time