LUST QUOTES V

quotations about lust

At the peak of this human agonized selfless tenderness (with my soul actually hanging around her naked body and ready to repent), all at once, ironically, horribly, lust would swell again--and 'oh, no,' Lolita would say with a sigh to heaven, and the next moment the tenderness and the azure--all would be shattered.

VLADIMIR NABOKOV

Lolita

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A satyr, which is half man and half beast, is the emblem of lust; to show that its followers prostitute the reason of man to gratify the appetites of a beast.

J. N. FUNCK

attributed, Day's Collacon


Love lives with Nature, not with lust.
Go find her in the flowers.

JOHN CLARE

"Stanzas", Selected Poems


But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

BIBLE

Matthew 5:28

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Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others.

HERBERT SPENCER

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Lust is what it is; it never lies.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Flirt

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

ST. BASIL

attributed, Day's Collacon


Lust is a desire against reason, a furious and unbridled appetite, which killeth all good notions in man's mind, and leaveth no place for virtue.

THOMAS JEVON

attributed, Day's Collacon


Lust is the base of most physical ills, and like a tapeworm in the system, it feeds on our best energies and vitality.

J. USHER

attributed, Day's Collacon


Lustful Desire (although 'twere rather fit
To some brute creature to attribute it)
Shall be presented in the second place,
Because it shrouds a vile deformed face
Beneath love's vizard, and assumes that name,
Hiding its own fault with the other's blame.

GEORGE WITHER

"Of Desire, or Lust", Poems


O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

FRANCIS QUARLES

Emblems


So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

attributed, The Seven Deadly Sins: A Companion

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Lust has no eyes.

TAMIL PROVERB


What's wrong with lust or covetousness, or concupiscence or libido? Aren't they natural? Yes indeed -- viciously natural. For in this context they signify disordered or discordant appetites, especially the disordered or discordant sexual appetite.

EDMUND HILL

Being Human: A Biblical Perspective


Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.

ZOROASTER

attributed, Day's Collacon


Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ... ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

MARQUIS DE SADE

attributed, Lust: A Dictionary for the Insatiable


The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt.

PLATO

Phaedo

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But in the morning Lust is always furtive. It dresses as mechanically as it undressed and heads straight for the door, to return to its own solitude. Like all the sins, it also makes us solitary. It is self-abdication at the very core of one's own being, a surrender of our need and ability to give and receive. Lust does not come with open hands, certainly not with an open heart. It comes only with open legs.

HENRY FAIRLIE

The Seven Deadly Sins of Today


Lust is not the real issue. It is a branch, along with a myriad of others, which receives its nourishment from roots that go deep into apathy, idleness, and unbelief. Addressing only lust is just trimming branches. I will continue to struggle with lust if I spend all my time focusing on only beating lust, so to speak.

ABBIE SMITH

Can You Keep Your Faith in College?


A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit,
Confounded in that Babel of the pit;
Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild,
Sick lust of souls, and an abortive child;
Born between whores and fops, by lewd compacts,
Before the play, or else between the acts;
Nor wonder, if from such polluted minds
Should spring such short and transitory kinds.

JONATHAN SWIFT

"To Mr. Congreve", The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous poems

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