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50 Quotes About Hot Sex, Lust, and Hookups That Are All Too Real

You're not a monster for enjoying casual sex. 
Holly Riordan
June 3, 2016
“The thought of sex as something forbidden excited me beyond all reason. It was like one animal knifing another into submission.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Tagged: Taboo, Sex, Forbidden
“I don’t even want a boyfriend. I just want someone who wants to hang out all the time, and thinks I’m the best person in the world, and wants to have sex with only me.”
— Lena Dunham as Hannah Horvath, Girls
Tagged: Relationships, Boyfriend, Girls, Humour, Dating, Casual Relationships, Casual Sex
“Kissing is more intimate than fucking.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Tagged: Relationships, Kissing, Sex, Fucking, Intimacy, Closeness
“There are limits to what even interested persons can ask of each other.”
— David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
Tagged: Relationships, separation, Limitations, Love, one perfect sentence, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“We were never good mornings because to have a good morning you have to stay the night. We were never just between us smiles because there was never really an us to begin with. We were never holding hands because one of us was always pulling away.”
— Kendra Syrdal, Maybe In Another Lifetime We Decided To Stop Running Away
Tagged: Heartbreak, Lost Love, Almost Relationships, Relationships
“In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glittering kiss and every touch of flesh is another shard of heart you’ll never see again.”
— Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things
Tagged: Sex, Love, Dating
“Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Tagged: Sex, Dating, Love
“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Tagged: Sex, Dating, Relationships
“The desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
— Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives
Tagged: Sex, hookups, Peace, Fear
“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.”
— Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Tagged: Sex, hookups
“I’m not going to say it was love at first sight. No, it was more like oh, hell-yes-please, I’ll have that. With a helping of right-the-fuck-now on the side.”
— Kristen Callihan, The Hook Up
Tagged: Love, Sex, Lust
“'I want you to spend the night,' you said. And it was definitely your phrasing that ensured it. If you had said, 'Let’s have sex,' or 'Let’s go to my place,' or even 'I really want you,' I’m not sure we would have gone quite as far as we did. But I loved the notion that the night was mine to spend, and I immediately decided to spend it with you.”
— David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary
Tagged: Sex, hookups
“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
Tagged: Sex, hookups, Dating
“Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
Tagged: Sex, emotions
“My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole benefit of another human being. I completely agreed with her, but reminded her that that was what blow jobs were for.”
— Chelsea Handler, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
Tagged: Sex, hookups
“If I met you last night, and brought you back to my place, or followed you to yours, and we had sex, that's what we asked for from each other. It's what I got, and what you got. I don't know you. You don't know me. Thanks for playing, and we're done.”
— Tammara Webber, Between the Lines
Tagged: Sex, hookups
“Sex pretty much cures everything.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
Tagged: Sex, hookups
“There’s a huge difference in sex and making love. We have sex with someone who can satisfy us physically, but we make love to someone who can satisfy us soulfully and eternally.”
— Mehek Bassi, Unconditionally Yours
Tagged: Sex, Love, Dating
“Making love is not something you do to someone―it's something you share. Lovemaking between men and women should be mutually pleasurably. Both women and men should be fully and completely satisfied.”
— J.F. Kelly, A Woman's Pleasure
Tagged: Sex, hookups
“Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.”
— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Tagged: Sex, hookups
“When did who you want to screw become the whole game? Since when is the person you want to screw the only person you get to love?”
— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Tagged: Love, Sex, hookups
“I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.”
— Rachel Perry
Tagged: Sex, hookups, Dating
“Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer.”
— Swami X
Tagged: Sex, hookups
“Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best.”
— Woody Allen
Tagged: Sex, Love, hookups
“If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
Tagged: Sex, Love, Dating
“People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!”
— C. Joybell C., All Things Dance Like Dragonflies
Tagged: Sex, Love, Lust
“For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.”
— Stephen King, Bag of Bones
Tagged: Lust, Love
“Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.”
— Marilyn Monroe, Censoring Hollywood: Sex and Violence in Film
Tagged: Sex, Nature, hookups
“Sex is… perfectly natural. It’s something that’s pleasurable. It’s enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don’t we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?”
— Sue Johanson, The Little Free Book of Uncensored Celebrity Sex Quotes
Tagged: Sex, sexuality
“The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year without Sex
Tagged: Sex, Music, prayer