Lust Quotes - Page 24

• The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us.

  Brennan Manning

  Sweet, Lying, Mean

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.18, Multnomah

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• In our lust for measurement, we frequently measure that which we can rather than that which we wish to measure... and forget that there is a difference.

  Udny Yule

  Differences, Wish, Statistics

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• People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

  Simon Cowell

  People, Ego, Insecurity

  "Simon Cowell confesses that the pressure would have killed him if he had been a child star" by Halina Watts, www.mirror.co.uk. June 1, 2013.

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• As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Art, Giving, Grace

  Thomas Guthrie (1865). “Man and the Gospel”, p.21

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Perfect, Purpose, Way

  Aleister Crowley (2016). “The Book of the Law”, p.5, Public Lex

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• 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

  Baby, Coping Mechanisms, Giving

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Love comes from the heart, lust comes ...lower

  Teresa Mummert

  Heart

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• Then a lightning bolt shot straight through my skivvies. Sha-ZAM!

  Megan McCafferty

  Lightning, Shots, Bolts

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.348, Crown

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• I have never been loved enough to gain the desire of reproducing a being in the image of my lover and I have never been given enough pleasure so that my brain has not had the leisure to seek better...I have wanted the impossible.

  Rachilde

  Brain, Desire, Leisure

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• The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair.

  Connie Willis

  Revenge, Pride, Wrath

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• A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn't fit, you can't exchange him seven days later for a gorgeous cashmere sweater. And a store always smells good. A store can awaken a lust for things you never even knew you needed. And when your fingers first grasp those shiny, new bags...

  Sophie Kinsella

  Truth, Love You, Men

  "Confessions of a Shopaholic". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

  Jacqueline Carey

  Desire, Made, Prolonging

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.91, Macmillan

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• All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Dream, Writing, Sadness

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• In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.

  Rob Sheffield

  Song, Loneliness, Boys

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• Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness...against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher.

  Hakim Bey

  Sweet, Smart, Boredom

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• For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, and the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.

  Aristotle

  Determination, Animal, Men

  Aristotle, Hugh Griffith (2009). “Aristotle”, p.201, Collector's Library

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• Most people understand that sexual lust has to do with propagating genes. Copulation in nature tends to lead to reproduction and so to more genetic copies. But in modern society, most copulations involve contraception, designed precisely to avoid reproduction. Altruism probably has origins like those of lust.

  Richard Dawkins

  People, Modern, Genes

  Source: inters.org

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• Infatuation.First Love.Lust.My passion can be explained away.But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals

  Jeanette Winterson

  Passion, First Love, Firsts

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.123, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I for one must get it out.

  C. S. Lewis

  Strong, Writing, Doe

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• People who have lust in their heart as just as guilty as those who commit adultery.

  Jimmy Carter

  Heart, People, Adultery

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.

  Robert Bolt

  Hero, Humility, Angel

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• 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

  Dream, Men, Proud

  H.G. Wells (2011). “The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds”, p.389, Everyman's Library

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• 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

  Jealousy, Want, Misery

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• Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapours, but these will gradually roll away and disappear, as it ascends to its steady and meridian lustre.

  Washington Irving

  Clouds, Rays, Genius

  "The Analectic Magazine".

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• (Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those districts of the soul where the monstrous vegetations of the sick mind flourish. There, near the breeding ground of intellectuals aberrations and disease of the mind - the mysterious tetanus, the burning fever of lust, the thyphoids and yellow fevers of crime – he had found, hatching in the dismal forcing-house of ennui, the frightening climacteric of thoughts and emotions.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Yellow, Sick, House

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