Abstention Quotes

“I don't smoke, don't drink, don't fuck. At least i can fucking think.”
― Ian Mackaye

“No one is responsible for what he is nor even for what he does. This is obvious and everyone more or less agrees that it is so. Then why celebrate or denigrate? Because to exist is to evaluate, to emit judgments, and because abstention, when it is not the effect of apathy or cowardice, requires an effort no one manages to make.”
― Emil Cioran

“A monk’s purity procured through strict abstention won’t stain. Even a dead bird’s foul feather can’t tinge it.”
― Misba, The High Auction

“Six months without sex is a lot, being French or not, just being human.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, "Darling, it's not only about sex"