Lust Quotes - Page 28

• The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.

  Thucydides

  Party, Passion, Ambition

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink. The nails the pen. The skin the parchment. On every line of that body I can trace my life. In the crown of thorns I can read my pride. In the hands that are dug with nails, I can read avarice and greed. In the flesh hanging from him like purple rags, I can read my lust. In feet that are fettered, I can find the times that I ran away and would not let him follow. Any sin that you can think of is written there.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Pride, Thinking, Blood

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• Running, close companion to death, summons us to the most vivid acts of life. Our ancestors (we have forgotten) ran for food and for love, love and lust. For us, a prime symbol of sexuality is the automobile. For the ancients it was the chase, the foot race. Satyr and nymph, maiden and god, hot pursuit. The mythic hunters, Diana and Atalanta, available only to the males, men or gods, who could outrun them; death to all others.

  George Leonard

  Running, Men, Race

  George Leonard (2001). “The Ultimate Athlete”, p.178, North Atlantic Books

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• A lot of us have developed a diet mentality toward lust. We really want to cut back on lust because we know its not healthy and it makes us feel bad. But like some rich, calorie-laden chocolate dessert, lust is just too tasty to resist completely. Surely God will understand if we break our diet and nibble a little lust now and then.

  Joshua Harris

  Cutting, Healthy, Chocolate

  Joshua Harris (2009). “Sex Is Not the Problem (Lust Is): Sexual Purity in a Lust-Saturated World”, p.25, Multnomah

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• Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow down and worship.

  Richard Cecil

  Strong, Thrones, World

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Remember that pride is the worst viper that is in the heart, the greatest disturber of the soul's peace and sweet communion with Christ; it was the first sin that ever was, and lies lowest in the foundation of Satan's whole building, and is the most difficultly rooted out, and is the most hidden, secret and deceitful of all lusts, and often creeps in, insensibly, into the midst of religion and sometimes under the disguise of humility.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Sweet, Lying, Heart

  Jonathan Edwards, George S. Claghorn, Perry Miller, John Edwin Smith, Norman Pettit (1998). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Letters and personal writings”

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• Lust carries her sharp whip At her own girdle.

  John Webster

  Girdles, Whips, Carrie

  1612 The White Devil, act 2, sc.1.

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• We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming wisdom / of the streets

  Jim Morrison

  Insane, Theatre, Ancient

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• I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.

  Ernest Cline

  Cute, Girl, Ukulele

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.63, Random House

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• I believe in lust at first sight.And attraction.But not love.

  Simone Elkeles

  Believe, Sight, Firsts

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Rules of Attraction”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.

  John Owen

  Christ, Vain, Mortification

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Mortification of Sin”, Lulu.com

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• Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place...that I do not regret, exceedingly. An ordure, from beginning to end.

  Samuel Beckett

  Girl, Regret, Grief

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Watt”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• 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.

  Clive Barker

  Sleep, Smell, Leaving

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• Adam lay perfectly still, little groans escaping from his lips. I looked at the bow, looked at my hands, looked at Adam's face and felt this surge of love, lust, and an unfamiliar feeling of power.

  Gayle Forman

  Escaping, Hands, Feelings

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.33, Penguin

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• Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.

  H. L. Mencken

  Hate, Race, United States

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.576, Vintage

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• Henry closed his eyes and imagined the sweet petulant woundedness with which she had stared at him on the beach. He felt a little proud that she could love him.

  Anna Godbersen

  Beach, Sweet, Eye

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• 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

  Gold, Nuggets, Old Time

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• Gluttony and Lust are the only sins that abuse something that is essential to our survival.

  Henry Fairlie

  Sex, Abuse, Survival

  Henry Fairlie (1979). “The Seven Deadly Sins Today”

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• His expression was infused with lust and adoration as he lowered his head to kiss her throat, his tongue venturing into the little spaces between the diamonds and round opals. “Why can’t you see yourself as I see you?” -Jack to Amanda

  Lisa Kleypas

  Kissing, Space, Expression

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• 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

  Laughing, Elbows, Stuff

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• 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

  Doe, Asking, Certain

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• If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.

  Marquis de Sade

  Dirty, Giving, Elements

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.

  William Ellery Channing

  War, Men, Evil

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Lecture on War”, p.11

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• Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it?

  John Towner Williams

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• Young girls giggle with nervous delight at the erections they inspire.

  Mason Cooley

  Girl, Sex, Inspire

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