Lust Quotations

I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.

From the days of biplanes and silk scarves, the aviator has been the archetype of masculine glamour. Aviators have personified national ideals, from French elan to Soviet party discipline. They've inspired lust and admiration. They've turned sunglasses and short, utilitarian leather jackets into fashion statements.

Innovations, instantly followed by a demented lust for them, now arrive with dizzying speed, not just daily, but in one-hour delivery slots.

All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power.

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

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.

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.

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

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.

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.

A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin.

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

I have not changed; I am still the same girl I was fifty years ago and the same young woman I was in the seventies. I still lust for life, I am still ferociously independent, I still crave justice, and I fall madly in love easily.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual.

If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.

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.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

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.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and inner desires. Humans craving what they can't have and those secret appetites transforming them into beasts, or even killers.

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all - most of us, anyway - want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Love is the rose. Lust is the thorn.

Since you ask, most days I cannot remember. I walk in my clothing, unmarked by that voyage. Then the almost unnameable lust returns.

Since you ask, most days I cannot remember.I walk in my clothing, unmarked by that voyage.Then the almost unnameable lust returns.

Lust is Love without the vital ingredient: Passion.

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like lustful beasts, that only know to do it: For lust will languish, and that heat decay, But thus, thus, keeping endless Holy-.

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.

Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.

The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.

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.

But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing; desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.

I have known a number of Don Juans who were good studs and who cavorted between the sheets without a psychiatrist to guide them. But most of the busy love-makers I knew were looking for masculinity rather than practicing it. They were fellows of dubious lust.

I am the strength, that is devoid of lust and attachment, of the strong.

From the White House to the Lust Boat: The Lurid, Untold Life of the National Football League.

. . . but beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.

I felt like I was suffering from the 'impostor syndrome. But now I know I can really play. These women were extremely tough pros with blood lust at the poker table.

I felt like I was suffering from the 'impostor syndrome,' ... I had these niggling self-doubts. But now I know I can really play. These women were extremely tough pros with blood lust at the poker table.

I felt like I was suffering from the 'impostor syndrome, ... I had these niggling self doubts. But now I know I can really play. These women were extremely tough pros with blood lust at the poker table.

I have always said when people first marry there is a whole lot of lust and not a whole lot of understanding. The longer you are married the more you understand each other.

Lust is easy. Love is hard. Life is most important.

The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.

No one every suddenly became depraved.

There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust.

Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties?

It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.

Some weigh their pleasure by their lust, Their wisdom by their rage of will, Their treasure is their only trust; And cloake' d craft their store of skill. But all the pleasure that I find Is to maintain a quiet mind.

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.

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.

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.

From an early age I knew very strongly the lust to kill...

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you.

The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.

Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

Today is made of yesterday, each time I steal toward rites I do not know, waiting for the lost ingredient, as if salt or money or even lust would keep us calm and prove us whole at last.

Which is scarier-- lust or temptation?

You are my beauty, my body, perfected. All I was drained off into you. When you left, my health went with you - leaving a moral morbidity I smell in my sleep. The acts I committed for the love of you. Acts I can never forget. I crawled into the bellies of the dead to fish out a little life... I have an appetite for it now. I have an unrelenting lust for death.

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

Technology is lust removed from nature.

This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)

The agenda in sexual activity, whether it's appropriate or not, has to do with lust, affection, passion, love, but the agenda in sexual harassment is not any of that. It is power, control, dominance. The tool is the same on both, but the agenda is completely different. That's what distinguishes the two.

what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches

Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.

Love is more cruel than lust.

Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.

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.