Lust Quotes

Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.

Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.

There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

Pity is like lust ... both like to masquerade as love and it's powerfully hard to know the difference when you're in the throes of it.

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

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.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

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

Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash.

I certainly don't believe in love at first sight. I definitely believe in a lot of chemistry and lust at first sight. I think that love is something that takes work.

Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?

Disharmony prevails when you confuse Lust with LOVE, while the distance between the two is endless!

As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

God made every one of us a sexual being, and that is good. Attraction and arousal are the natural, spontaneous, God-given responses to physical beauty, while lust is a deliberate act of the will.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust.

Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.

Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.

The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.

Dorian used to watch you like a starving man who wants meat. Now he looks at you like he wants seconds.

I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.

Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony, or, as we call them these days, "getting in touch with your sexuality," "raising your self-esteem," "relaxation therapy," and "being a recovered bulimic."

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.

Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such.

Love is more cruel than lust.

Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Sin endeavors to subject the blessed God to the humor and lust of every person in the world

It is regarded as normal to consecrate virginity in general and to lust for its destruction in particular.

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.

Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud the preservation of its instruments.

He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.

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.

We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need.

Lust is the cause of generation.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.