Lust Quotes - Page 9

• Selfishness so often is the basis of money problems, which are a very serious and real factor affecting the stability of family life. Selfishness is at the root of adultery, the breaking of solemn and sacred covenants to satisfy selfish lust. Selfishness is the antithesis of love. It is a cankering expression of greed. It destroys self-discipline. It obliterates loyalty. It tears up sacred covenants. It afflicts both men and women.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Loyalty, Selfish, Real

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• Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.

  Khalil Gibran

  Passion, Funeral, Soul

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.54, Lulu.com

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• When Barrons looks at me like that, it rattles me. Lust, in those ancient, obsidian eyes, offers no trace of humanity. Doesn’t even bother trying. Savage Mac wants to invite it to come out and play. I think she’s nuts. Nuts, I tell you.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Eye, Thinking, Nuts

  Karen Marie Moning (2008). “Faefever: Fever Series”, p.155, Delacorte Press

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• Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.

  Plato

  Order, Sloth, Impudence

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• Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh, for the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

  Paul the Apostle

  Flesh, Galatians, Spirit

  Saint Paul (the Apostle), Thomas Shaw Bancroft Reade (1848). “Christian Experience as Displayed in the Life and Writings of Saint Paul .. 4th Ed. With the Author's Final Corrections”, p.339

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• Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice?

  Olaudah Equiano

  Country, Luxury, Feelings

  Olaudah Equiano (1967). “Annotated The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Or Gustavus Vassa, The African with English Grammar Exercises: by Olaudah Equiano (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.34, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get.

  Josh McDowell

  Giving, Waiting

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• The strong individual loves the earth so much he lusts for recurrence. He can smile in the face of the most terrible thought: meaningless, aimless existence recurring eternally. The second characteristic of such a man is that he has the strength to recognize - and to live with the recognition - that the world is valueless in itself and that all values are human ones. He creates himself by fashioning his own values; he has the pride to live by the values he wills.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Pride, Men

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• Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.

  Lisa See

  Heart, Eye, Breathing

  Lisa See (2011). “Peony in Love”, p.37, A&C Black

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• Think about food on a full stomach and you find you don't care about taste. Think of lust after making love, and you find you don't care about sex. Therefore, if people always reflect on the regret they will feel afterward to forestall folly at the moment, they will be stable and will not err in action.

  Zicheng Hong

  Sex, Regret, Thinking

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• What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?

  Alexandra Ivy

  Struggle, Men, Lace

  Alexandra Ivy (2007). “Embrace the Darkness”, p.304, Zebra Books

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• It is possible for the devil to inhabit animals the same way he inhabits humans and that causes a sin of lust.

  Gordon Klingenschmitt

  Animal, Insane, Devil

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• There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Choices, Beast

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.51, e-artnow

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• The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere; it is not this sort of license that distinguishes New York. It is rather, a lust of the total ego for recognition, even for eminence. More than elsewhere, everybody here wants to be somebody.

  Sydney J. Harris

  New York, Ego, Flesh

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• [This approach] displays the characteristic philosophical lust to vanquish the skeptic by arguing him out of his skepticism, without appeal to moral and political considerations or to the facts of everyday life. [...] But more often than not, if you give the skeptic everything he wants, then he will be successful in repulsing your attacks and terrorizing your position.

  Dale Jamieson

  Philosophical, Successful, Giving

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• Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Fortune, Accumulation

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.153

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• There is much made in the psychological literature of the effects of divorce on children, particularly as it comes to their own marriages, lo those many years later. We have always wondered why there is not more research done on the children of happy marriages. Our parents' love is not some grand passion, there are no swoons of lust, no ball gowns and tuxedos, but here is the truth: they have not spent a night apart since the day they married.How can we ever hope to find a love to live up to that?

  Eleanor Brown

  Love, Children, Passion

  Eleanor Brown (2011). “The Weird Sisters”, p.111, Penguin

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• Rowdy, hopped-up college kids pass us in an endless, noisy blur like they're being mass produced or squeezed out of a tube - guys skulking in their T-shirts and cargo shorts, girls in low-slung jeans and flip-flops, pimples and breasts and tattoos and lipstick and legs and bra straps, and cigarettes; a colorful, sexy melange. I feel old and tired and I just want to be them again, want to be young and stupid, filled with angst and attitude and unbridled lust. Can I have a do-over, please? I swear to God I'll make a real go of it this time.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Tattoo, Girl, Sexy

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• Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.

  Saint Basil

  Heart, Grace, Understanding

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• Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust

  Aldous Huxley

  Tired, Vices, Body

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• First of all, I love women. But I lust after beautiful women in the way that I lust after a beautiful piece of sculpture - this will probably get me in trouble - or a beautiful car. I believe everyone's on a sliding scale of sexuality. There are moments where I am sexually attracted to women. But it doesn't overpower my first impulse; my lust for them is the same as my lust for beauty in all things.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Believe, Car

  Interview With John Currin, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 30, 2010.

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• Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the acquisitive instinct, or lust for anything whatsoever.

  Lawren Harris

  Beauty, Men, Games

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• Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Men, Vices, Driving

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• Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts

  Saint Peter

  Knowing, Atheism, Lasts

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• Sex was like a world so mysterious to me, I really couldn't believe there was this fantastic texture to life that I was getting to do...it has all these different levels, from lust and fearful, violent sex to the real spiritual thing at the other end. It's the key to some fantastic mystery of life.

  David Lynch

  Spiritual, Sex, Real

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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