“Celibacy is the essence of vulgarity.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Rome, or Reason?, p. 61 http://www.archive.org/stream/thegreatcontrove00ingeuoft/thegreatcontrove00ingeuoft_djvu.txt
“I never took a vow of celibacy as I was already practising celibacy.”
Godse referring to Gandhi's diktat of advocating celibacy even to newlyweds
Excerpts from the play Mee Nathuram Godse boltoy
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Robert Ndlovu (1955) Archbishop of Harare
Source: ‘Pius Ncube now living a life of prayer’ https://thestandard.newsday.co.zw/2012/08/05/pius-ncube-now-living-a-life-of-prayer/ (5 August 2012)
“Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise
Source: This Side of Paradise
“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”
Samuel Johnson book The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 26
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
Last Talks at Saanen, 1985 (1987), p. 158
1980s
Context: The questioner says, how can the conditioned brain grasp the unlimited, which is beauty, love, and truth? What is the ground of compassion and intelligence, and can it come upon us — each one of us? Are you inviting compassion? Are you inviting intelligence? Are you inviting beauty, love, and truth? Are you trying to grasp it? I am asking you. Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it? Is that what you are grasping — wanting to find out the ground upon which it dwells? Can the limited brain grasp this? You cannot possibly grasp it, hold it. You can do all kinds of meditation, fast, torture yourself, become terribly austere, having one suit, or one robe. All this has been done. The rich cannot come to the truth, neither the poor. Nor the people who have taken a vow of celibacy, of silence, of austerity. All that is determined by thought, put together sequentially by thought; it is all the cultivation of deliberate thought, of deliberate intent.
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Devil in Winter
“Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.”
Thomas Love Peacock book Melincourt
Melincourt, chapter VII (1817).
“[T]here’s a lot to be said for celibacy, for the concentration of your mental and physical energy.”
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. 291
