Lust Quotes - Page 6

• 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.

  Mortimer Adler

  Self, Sensual, Desire

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1991). “Desires, Right & Wrong: The Ethics of Enough”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could take from it, by the intense and amusing need they had merely to touch it, to reach out urgently and press it, squeeze it, pinch it, rub it. She did not understand Yossarian's lust; but she was willing to take is word for it.

  Joseph Heller

  Men, Needs, Body

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

  Aldous Huxley

  Silly, People, Everest

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• If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

  Blaise Pascal

  Ambition, Pride, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

  Tacitus

  Wise, Men, Lasts

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• Ladies ...any man that lusts after you will answer to God for his mental adultery...but you will answer to God if you provoked him by the manner in which you are dressed.

  Albert Martin

  Men, Answers, Adultery

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• This is the truth. I have been in love. I have been in lust. I’ve made good choices and bad ones, I have been smart and I’ve been stupid. But I have never in my life felt the way I do now, here, with Will.

  Megan Hart

  Smart, Stupid, Choices

  Megan Hart (2013). “Tear You Apart”, p.152, Harlequin

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• I think that love should be greater than your lust for each other.

  Toni Gonzaga

  Thinking, Should, Greater

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• Iris Krasnow has managed to demystify the workings of long-term marriages by confirming the mysterious uniqueness of each one. The secret, she finds, lies in the way two people negotiate their own personal amalgam of companionship and sex, compromise and disappointment, lust and tenderness, trust and lies. The challenge for the rest of us is to do the same.

  Suzanne Braun Levine

  Sex, Disappointment, Lying

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• ...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.

  Alan Watts

  Animal, Use, Charity

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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• Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Witty, Sex, Revenge

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.111, BookBaby

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• Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous, less constant, less rational, less peaceful than he knows how to be, than he is fully capable of being. He has been led astray from the ways of peace and brotherhood by his addiction to concepts and attitudes of narrow nationalism, racial and religious bigotry, greed and lust for power.

  Ralph Bunche

  Wise, Wisdom, Religious

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• Walk ten meters, you will find the lust; walk thousand miles, you may find the love! Soil is everywhere; but gold is somewhere!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Gold, Soil

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• The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Ordinary, Flesh

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• I like the way we get to be uninhibited in our dreams, we don't' need to repress our behaviours like we do in our daily lives. If we lust after someone in a dream we get to possess him or her, if we dislike someone we get to express it or even strike out at them. Something I wouldn't think of doing, I don't have the courage, and it's not right either.

  Guy Maddin

  Dream, Thinking, Dislike Someone

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn, And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished with the morn. And if I pray, the only prayer That moves my lips for me Is, 'Leave the heart that now I bear, And give me liberty!' Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.

  Emily Bronte

  Dream, Prayer, Moving

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.133, The Floating Press

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• Your Nafs is just like a suckling child. If you do not take the pains to wean him, he will yearn for his mother's breast even when he's grown up. Therefore you should not try to satisfy your lust by indulging in sins. This will only increase the desire for more sins. The same is the case with the disease of gluttony. The more a person eats, the more his hunger increases.

  Busiri

  Wisdom, Mother, Pain

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• It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted.

  Kate Elliott

  Letting Go, Pride, Vanity

  Kate Elliott (2009). “Traitors' Gate”, p.877, Macmillan

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• As a maternal figure, I always try to keep the flock safe, of course. But I admit, it did my heart proud to see the instant blood-lust pop into Gazzy’s blue eyes and to see little Angel automatically tense up and get into fighting stance, ready to rip someone’s head off. They were just so — so dang adorable, sometimes.

  James Patterson

  Rip, Eye, Angel

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• Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Sexy, Sentimental

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Peace, War, Years

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 106

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• There is not only a lack of success for condoms. It's worse than that - they are utter failures.

  Wendy Wright

  Condom

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• You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew; he hath now access to your fancy to stir up lustful thoughts and desires, so that when you should think of your calling, of your God, or of your soul, your thoughts will be worse than swinish, upon the filth that is not fit to be named. If the devil here get in a foot, he will not easily be got out.

  Richard Baxter

  Thinking, Doors, Feet

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.423

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• There were rules among friends, commandments, really, and the most important one was Thou Shalt Not Lust After Thy Friend's Sister.

  Julia Quinn

  Important, Commandments

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