Quotessence
Home / Topics / Virginity Quotes

Virginity Quotes

Browse 256 quotes about Virginity.

Related topics

LostSexIfsLosingVirginsGirlFirstsMenLosesPeopleThinkingWorldYearsFeelsKnowsYoungAbstinenceChastityFunnyLosing Your VirginityMayMindWant

Virginity Quotes

“Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance. Old age is similarly a waiting room, where you go after life's over and wait for cancer or a stroke. The years before and after the menstrual years are vestigial: the only meaningful condition left to women is that of fruitfulness.”

YearsAgeLeftWaitingRoomsConditionsAgingMereCancerMeaningfulOld AgeSignificanceStrokesVirginityBefore And AfterFruitfulnessWaiting RoomsPreamble
Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
Create image

“I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.”

IfsMindSelfReasonBodyPurposeTermVirtueHonestHonestyWillingIntegrityVicesYieldModestyModestMind And BodyChastityVirginityInhumane
Author:John Donne
Create image

“It is appearances, characteristics and performance that make a man love an airplane, and they, are what put emotion into one. You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane, and men who love them are faithful to them even though they leave them for others. A man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ever be.”

IfsMenHeartLosesEmotionPerformancesHorseAppearanceLovelyFlightFighterPlanesFaithfulCharacteristicsAviationAirplaneVirginityOne You Love
Author:Ernest Hemingway
Create image

“My virginity, that from my childhood kept me company, is heavier than I can endure to bear. Forgive me, Cupid, for thou art god, and I a wretched creature: I have sinn'd; but be thou merciful, and grant that yet I may enjoy what thou wilt have me love!”

MayArtI CanEnjoyCompanyChildhoodBearsCreaturesForgivingEndureGrantsWretchedMercifulVirginityForgive MeCupid
Book:The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont and Mr. John Fletcher: In Ten Volumes. Collated with All the Former Editions, and Corrected. With Notes Critical and Explanatory
Create image

“It was not the visible sun, but its invisible Creator who consecrated this day for us, when the Virgin Mother, fertile of womb and integral in her virginity, brought him forth, made visible for us, by whom, when he was invisible, she too was created. A Virgin conceiving, a Virgin bearing, a Virgin pregnant, a Virgin bringing forth, a Virgin perpetual. Why do you wonder at this, O man?”

MenMadeMotherWonderSunCreatorInvisibleVisibleThis DayPerpetualPregnantVirginsWombVirginityFertileConceiving
Author:Saint Augustine
Create image

“A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God's attention. He showed his great love for the world by giving Jesus to her.”

WorldGivingHeartJesusChristAttentionSpecialCatholicCleanConvincedPurityMaryHis LoveGreat LoveChastityVirginityChastity PurityClean HeartPurity And LoveFree HeartUndivided LoveSpecial Beauty
Author:Mother Teresa
Create image

“Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means that nothing else matters-not what we accomplish, not what we think, not what we care about and work for. Just if/how/whom we have sex with. That’s all.”

IfsThinkingMeanMatterCareCultureSexMoralityInstitutionsPopsAccomplishSexualityPop CultureVirginityPresent DayAmerican SocietyCulture Religion
Book:The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women
Create image

“The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all books in the name of one book alone; hatred of sexuality, women,and pleasure; hatred of feminine; hatred of body, of desires, of drives. Instead Judaism, Christianity, and Islam extol faith and belief, obedience and submission, taste for death and longing for the beyond, the asexual angel and chastity, virginity and monogamous love, wife and mother, soul and spirit. In other words, life crucified and nothingness exalted.”

BookSoulReasonBodyFormSpiritMotherDesireThreeNamesBeliefPleasureChristianityWifeShareTasteAngelHatredLongingSeriesIslamAtheistSexualityObedienceFeminineNothingnessJudaismSubmissionIdenticalExaltedChastityVirginityAversionMonotheismChristianity And IslamWives And Mothers
Author:Michel Onfray
Create image

“I didn't tell him I was a virgin, just that I hadn’t done it “that much.” It hurt a little more than I'd expected but in a different way, and he was nervous too and he never came. Afterwards we lay there and talked, and I could tell he was a really nice person. I commended myself for making a healthy, albeit hasty, partner choice. I really couldn't wait to tell my mom.”

WayLittlesPersonsDifferentDoneChoicesWaitingHurtNiceMomHealthyLosingLaysMy MomExpectedPartnersNervousDifferent WaysIt HurtsVirginsReally NiceVirginityHastyNice Person
Author:Lena Dunham
Create image

“I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around," we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.”

HumansWellsHeartSexSleepHungerConvincedBoredomPurityProtectedSheerHuman HeartCasualVirginitySanctityConstancyMonotonyDullnessForfeitPassion And PuritySleeping Around
Author:Elisabeth Elliot
Create image

“[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates. She is on a mission to lose her virginity. That's a mission easily accomplished, if that's the only mission. The story had to be more complicated than that. Because there is so little happening dramatically, there had to be something to keep you curious.”

IfsLittlesIdeasStoriesFilmYoungGirlLosesDirectorsHappeningsComplicatedMissionsCuriousCraftsAccomplishedVirginityTuscanyExpatriates
Author:Susan Minot
Create image