Lust Quotes - Page 23

• My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace. (New Year's Eve, 1947)

  Patricia Highsmith

  New Year, Memories, Hate

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• Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold. Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die.

  Oscar Wilde

  Kissing, Men, Hands

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 1, st. 7 (1898) See Roberts 1

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• The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Art, Made

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• To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven. In general, people savor the "pleasures of the flesh" only on the condition that they may be insipid.

  Georges Bataille

  Fear, Eye, People

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• My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.

  Graham Greene

  Passion, Simple, Forever

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• He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret

  Joseph Heller

  Regret, Sick, Mesmerized

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense of being tossed about by some raging, savage force, in the midst of which lay something absolutely crucial. I had no idea what that was. But I wanted to thrust my hand right inside her body and touch it, whatever it was.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hands, Ideas, Savages

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• With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.

  Dervla Murphy

  Country, Years, Two

  Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.76, The Overlook Press

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• The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible and terrifying of all human notions, love. That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the world's full octave. Love as Agape, Eros and Philos; love as infatuation, obsession and lust; love as torture, euphoria, ecstasy and oblivion (this is beginning to read like a Calvin Klein perfume catalogue); love as need, passion and desire.

  Stephen Fry

  Passion, Gay, Eight

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• I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too." "I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Past, Hard Times, Hands

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• Satan is ever seeking to inject that poison into our hearts to distrust God's goodness - especially in connection with his commandments. That is what really lies behind all evil, lusting and disobedience. A discontent with our position and portion, a craving from something which God has wisely held from us. Reject any suggestion that God is unduly severe with you. Resist with the utmost abhorrence anything that causes you to doubt God's love and his loving-kindness toward you. Allow nothing to make you question the Father's love for his child.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Faith, Children, Kindness

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• In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one more thing to be had. It is the mythos of moderns.

  Jennifer Stone

  Sex, Biblical, Views

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• Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

  E. M. Forster

  Struggle, Together, Twists

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• Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

  Cyril Connolly

  Beach, Children, Home

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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

  Simple, Mind, Doctrine

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• Great lovers lie in Hell, the stubborn ones
  Infatuate of the flesh upon the bones;
  Stuprate, they rend each other when they kiss,
  The pieces kiss again, no end to this.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Lying, Kissing, Great Love

  John Crowe Ransom (1978). “Selected Poems”

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• The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Beautiful, Real, Men

  "Shards of Honor". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1986.

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• 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.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Essence, Goal, Ridiculous

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1967). “Letters and Papers from Prison”

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• While there may not be spiritual oppression involved in your battle [against lust], there'll always be opposition. The enemy is constantly near your ear. He doesn't want you to win this fight, and he knows the lies that so often break a man's confidence and his will to win. Expect to hear lies and plenty of them. satan's lie: 'You're the only one dealing with this problem. If anyone ever finds out, you'll be the laughingstock of the church!' The truth: Most men deal with this problem, so no one will laugh.

  Steve Arterburn

  Spiritual, Lying, Fighting

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• Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.

  Lynda Obst

  Ambition, Two, People

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• I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

  Rebecca McClanahan

  Book, Fall, Reading

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• 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

  Soul And Body, Literature, Diamond In The Rough

  'An Essay Upon Projects' (1697)

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• Satan cannot create anything new, cannot create anything at all. He must steal what God has created. Thus he twists love and God's wonderful gift of sex into lust and sadism and myriad perversions. He disfigures the heart's deep desire to worship God and persuades us to bow before lesser gods of lust or money or power.

  Catherine Marshall

  Sex, Heart, Desire

  Catherine Marshall (1995). “Catherine Marshall: Inspiration Writings”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• red hair is caused by sugar and lust.

  Tom Robbins

  Hair, Sugar, Red

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.53, Bantam

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• Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds.

  Narayanananda Swami.

  Love Is, Two, Two Loves

  "A Practical Guide to Samadhi". Book by Swami Narayanananda, p. 144 (2001 edition), 1957.

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