Lust famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
-- Abu Bakr -
I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.
-- Abu Nuwas -
In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.
-- Alan Moore -
Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you.
-- Alan Zweibel -
Ladies ...any man that lusts after you will answer to God for his mental adultery...but you will answer to God if you provoked him by the manner in which you are dressed.
-- Albert Martin -
Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful idleness, has something of the thrill of things forbidden.
-- Alberto Manguel -
People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
-- Aldous Huxley -
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
-- Aleister Crowley -
For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.
-- Aleister Crowley -
Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors
-- Alejandra Pizarnik -
I think I can speak on behalf of women and say that every woman wants a man who just loves them and lusts after them.
-- Alex Pettyfer -
To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
-- Alexander Pope -
Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
-- Alexander Pope -
What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?
-- Alexandra Ivy -
Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because those who truly love do not desire power.
-- Alison Croggon -
He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. "The wait will be fun, but it's not going to be easy."
-- Amy Plum -
Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day
-- Angelo Pellegrini -
If you lust after someone and have an absurd and overwhelming need to protect them, then the best way to deal with the situation is to marry the person.
-- Anne Stuart -
Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.
-- Anthony of Padua -
It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
-- Ava Gardner -
So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.
-- Ava Gardner -
What is cheaper than lust or of less value than alchemy or aphrodisiacs?
-- Avram Davidson -
Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
-- Ayn Rand -
Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not "idealistic," no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
-- Ayn Rand -
Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
Happiness is not the reward of virtue, but is virtue itself; nor do we delight in happiness because we restrain from our lusts; but on the contrary, because we delight in it, therefore we are able to restrain them.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
-- Ben Jonson -
The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon the social conventions to which he is accustomed
-- Bertrand Russell -
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
-- Billy Wilder -
Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties?
-- Brad Meltzer -
Any who pretend to assume to engage in plural marriage in this day, when the one holding the keys has withdrawn the power by which they are performed, are guilty of gross wickedness. Thy are living in adultery, have already sold their souls to Satan, and (whether their acts are based on ignorance or lust or both) they will be damned in eternity.
-- Bruce R. McConkie -
Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Lust is easy. Love is hard. Life is most important.
-- Carl Reiner -
History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again.
-- Carl Sagan -
But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate.
-- Casey Affleck -
It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.
-- Charlaine Harris -
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.
-- Chrissie Hynde -
If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.
-- Christopher Meloni -
Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
One part of love is innocence One part of love is guilt One part the milk that in a sense Is soured as soon as spilt One part of love is sentiment One part of love is lust One part is the presentiment Of our return to dust
-- Clive Barker -
There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth ... lust. When he is strong ... quarrelsomeness. When he is old ... covetousness.
-- Confucius -
We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.
-- D. A. Carson -
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
-- Daniel Defoe -
The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.
-- Dante Alighieri -
I strode toward Mr. Coffee with lust in my eyes. We'd had a thing for quite some time now Mr. Coffee and I...
-- Darynda Jones -
Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting everything on the smorgasbord to have life-altering encounters. They have a terror of closing off options. They have been inculcated with a lust for prestige and a fear of doing things that may put their status at risk.
-- David Brooks -
A man lusts to become a god…and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?
-- David Zindell -
We don't fall in love, we fall in lust. We ascend to love.
-- Dean Cavanagh -
Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.
-- Demonax -
Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.
-- Diogenes -
Technological consciousness takes itself dead seriously; it has no sense of humor. The fool can play no role in it, for there is no other realm that is can see beyond itself to which the fool can point. Consciousness in the throes of desire cannot tolerate laughter any more than criticism of laughter can be tolerated in a moment of sexual lust.
-- Donald Phillip Verene -
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
-- Douglas Horton -
I'm tryna do it all tonight, I got plans. I got a certain lust for life, and as it stands.
-- Drake -
Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
-- E. M. Forster -
I've been feeling everything. From hate to love. From love to lust. From lust to truth. I guess that's how I know you.
-- Ed Sheeran -
A bit of ***** after someone does wonders for the skin.
-- Elizabeth Hurley -
Then I heard someone laugh. I wished I didn't know whose laugh it was, but I knew Will's laugh just like I knew he had a small scar right above his left elbow. You couldn't be reluctantly lust-ridden for someone without noticing stuff about them.
-- Elizabeth Scott -
Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.
-- Eloisa James -
The thing I never understood about love is that it can't be quelled, like lust can. With love, if you follow its call, if you give in to it, it just gets worse. The more you have, the deeper you go, the more you need.
-- Emily Maguire -
Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.
-- Eric Jerome Dickey -
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
-- Erich Fromm -
The flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh.
-- F.B. Meyer -
I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water.
-- Faraaz Kazi -
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.
-- Frank Chodorov -
The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.
-- Frank Scoblete -
They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt -
I was asking about lust, wasnʼt I? I was fairly certain of it. But isnʼt love supposed to come before lust? It does in the dictionary.
-- Franny Billingsley -
Solyndra will be remembered in the history books as a sad hallmark of a newly installed administration that felt it was above the rules, ***** for positive headlines rather than focused on delivering results.
-- Fred Upton -
Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
-- Frederick Buechner -
We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as Germans the Polish Jews as well, although this dirtiest of all races, neither by its jargon nor by its descent, but at most only through its lust for profit, could have any relation of kinship with Frankfurt.
-- Friedrich Engels -
After thee accumulation of too much history we have lost our innocence, we cannot easily believe in any explanations. We describe rather than feel, we touch rather than explore, we lust rather than adore.
-- Genesis P-Orridge -
The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.
-- George Bellows -
Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.
-- George Mason -
The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.
-- George Strait -
Lustful Desire (although 'twere rather fit To some brute creature to attribute it) Shall be presented in the second place, Because it shrouds a vile deformed face Beneath love's vizard, and assumes that name, Hiding its own fault with the other's blame.
-- George Wither -
I don't think we can ever learn much from ultra-sensitive, shifty faces, skilled in disguise, that hide themselves in lust, as beasts hide to die.
-- Georges Bernanos -
It is possible for the devil to inhabit animals the same way he inhabits humans and that causes a sin of lust.
-- Gordon Klingenschmitt -
They'd never been lovers, of course, not in the physical sense. But they'd been lovers as most of us manage, loving through expressions and gestures and the palm set softly upon the bruise at the necessary moment. Lovers by inclination rather than by lust. Lovers, that is, by love.
-- Gregory Maguire -
They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.
-- H. G. Wells -
Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.
-- Hart Crane -
Lust is the sin that gets me excited. Luckily, because I'm married, I also get really good jewelry out of it.
-- Heather Locklear -
Gluttony and Lust are the only sins that abuse something that is essential to our survival.
-- Henry Fairlie -
Line dancing is as sinful as any other type of dancing, with its sexual gestures and touching. It is an incitement to lust.
-- Ian Paisley -
Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
-- Irving Babbitt -
Lust tastes like tequila and love tastes like whiskey. Love burns for longer and warms you up on the inside and sometimes it makes you do stupid things. Tequila makes you wasted. You can get wasted on lust and warmed by love.
-- Jackson Rathbone -
What comes first in a relationship is lust - then more lust.
-- Jacqueline Bisset -
There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire
-- Jacqueline Carey -
I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York.
-- Janice Dickinson -
Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?
-- Jay Asher
