Jack Kerouac Quotes

But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves," was my saying, whenever I'd had to turn my head around involuntarily to stare at the in­comparable pretties of Indian Mexico.

I want to wait to have sex until I'm married. I do. I want to wait, but it's hard. I just want to live my life.

Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.

I’ve remained a virgin for you.

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

I didn't sleep with anyone till I was 23.

A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite

In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as it is in heaven. "But if they cannot contain " Paul finally conceded then "let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn." Which is perhaps the most begrudging endorsement of matrimony in human history.

I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.

Men who refrain from sexual acts are frequently stronger, owing to their conservation of energy.

Celibacy is exhausting.

I don't believe in sex before marriage. I go out with boys, and we kiss, but that's it.

The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration.

Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh.

Chastity is sexual intercourse with affection.

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

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

We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited.

if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.