Lust Quotes

• 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

  Inspirational, Religious, Desire

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• The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  World, Unusual, Form

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• Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Grace, Age

  1881 Leaves of Grass, 'Youth, Day, Old Age and Night', stanza 1.

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• A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.

  Tertullian

  Beautiful, Giving, May

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• Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Life Lesson, Philosophical, Curiosity

  "Very Happy to Be Here!". Book by Edward Pavlik, p.137, December 1, 2006.

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• Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

  Frederick Buechner

  Men, Dying, Salt

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Hero, People, Temptation

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

  Alan Zweibel

  Love, Sexy, Lasting Marriage

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• Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

  Saint Augustine

  Evil, God Love, No Love

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• Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Lying, Never Lie

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 16-19”, p.1130, Penguin

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• There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.

  Tulsidas

  Powerful, Evil, Greed

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Race, God's Creation

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

  Winston Churchill

  Exercise, Power, Insatiable

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• 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.

  Judith Viorst

  Love, Relationship, Desire

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• Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Lying, Forged

  William Shakespeare (1826). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.43

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• Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

  Francis Quarles

  Vices, Spurs, Affection

  Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, George Gilfillan (1857). “The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.213

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• Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

  Calvin Miller

  Love, Passion, Two

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• When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wings, People

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• Lust is the devil's counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Beautiful, Devil, Earth

  Dwight L Moody (1977). “D. L. Moody on the Ten Commandments”, p.73, Moody Publishers

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• Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.

  Pliny the Elder

  Mind, Enemy, Purses

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• The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Work, Pride

  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

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• 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-.

  Ben Jonson

  Sports, Decay, Done

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.740

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• No one every suddenly became depraved.

  Juvenal

  Depraved

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• In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

  Tori Amos

  Wall, Kids, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love forgives the lover even his lust.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Forgiving, Lovers

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.124, Vintage

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