46 Quotes on Lust

• Our eyes, akin to fallen leaves in an autumn breeze, script silent stories of attractions danced in waits too profound for words to busk.

  Author: Elara Sinnett

• When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together.

  Author: Alfre Woodard

• Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

  Author: John Webster

• Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

  Author: John Webster

• Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

  Author: Ethel Waters

• The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

  Author: Judith Viorst

• Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

  Author: Marquis Sade

• Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

  Author: Marquis Sade

• An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

  Author: Saadi

• 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).

  Author: Dawn Powell

• If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

  Author: Camille Paglia

• Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

  Author: John Orr

• I lust love to play football.

  Author: Ray Nitschke

• The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.

  Author: Dave Mustaine

• 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.

  Author: Michel Montaigne

• I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.

  Author: John Metcalf

• Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.

  Author: Charles MacArthur

• My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

  Author: Lance Loud

• Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

  Author: John Lahr

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

  Author: Karl Kraus

• Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.

  Author: Ben Jonson

• The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

  Author: Douglas Horton

• The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

  Author: Thomas Hobbes

• Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

  Author: Thomas Hobbes

• There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

  Author: William Harvey

• The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

  Author: Khalil Gibran

• There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

  Author: A. Giamatti

• Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

  Author: Mohandas Gandhi

• Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

  Author: E. Forster

• The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

  Author: Pliny Elder

• I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

  Author: Aleister Crowley

• Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

  Author: Mason Cooley

• Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

  Author: Mason Cooley

• 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.

  Author: William Clifford

• People never know how strong is their lust for being cheated.

  Author: Joe Chung

• The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

  Author: Frank Chodorov

• I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

  Author: Jimmy Carter

• Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

  Author: Abu Bakr

• Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

  Author: Irving Babbitt

• It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.

  Author: Johann Arndt

• In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

  Author: Tori Amos

• It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

  Author: Mortimer Adler

• 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.

  Author: Mortimer Adler

• 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.

  Author: Joseph Addison

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