Lust Desire Quotes

#1. Lust, desire and passion. They can turn a wallflower into a sexual predator and a rational person into a raving lunatic.

Joanne Madeline Moore

#2. If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

Beau Willimon

#3. Money was evil, beauty vain, and both were transitory. Ambition was pride, desire for gain was avarice, desire of the flesh was lust, desire for honor, even for knowledge and beauty, was vainglory. Insofar as these diverted man from seeking the life of the spirit, they were sinful.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#4. The thought went through my mind that we should film ourselves in our sexual act, and project our frenzied copulation permanently onto the walls of the tea-room, as a lesson to wake up the boring people who drank tea here, and to show them what life was really all about.

Fiona Thrust

#5. There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.
Thus I lust over the flawless,
and fall amorously forceless to the flawed.

Ilyas Kassam

#6. The word lust [can] mean "selfish desire." ... It is wanting something so badly you will do anything to get it. That is one of the tricks of the devil. It is too high a price to pay.

Billy Graham

#7. every choice i have ever made after you existed
has been dependent on exactly
how close i can have you next to me
and how long i can get you to stay.

AVA.

#8. Desire happiness, aspire to gratitude, long for health, crave compassion, seek satisfaction, lust after God, however & whatever you perceive God to be, want to love yourself, others & everything around you more and more each day

Peter McWilliams

#9. I hate the thing is called enjoyment:
Besides it is a dull employment,
It cuts off all that's life and fire
From that which may be termed desire;
Just like the bee whose sting is gone
Converts the owner to a drone.

John Wilmot

#10. With other women he had not been able to touch their flesh without experiencing the desire to devour it, as though ravenous with an abominable hunger to butcher them. But this one, could he then love her, and not kill her?

Emile Zola

#11. You have the body of a god and the smile of a demon. I walk towards you, barefoot, a believer walking a religious path. I wrap my arms around your neck, a priest hugging his crucifix.
I offer you my all. Burn me like incense.
Let's make all the church bells in hell ring just for us.

Malak El Halabi

#12. In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.

Alan Moore

#13. She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes.

Gustave Flaubert

#14. Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?

A.E. Samaan

#15. Trust Kills Lust

Susan Block

#16. He'd never sat vigil for someone before - didn't know what he was supposed to do other than wait. And lust for the man sitting by his side. As if Death weren't enough to fight off, the world had to go and throw Desire into the fray as well.

Rhys Ford

#17. 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

#18. Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for another, that shows your level of ingratitude.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#19. Lust, pure gorgeous lust: the sacred energy that elevates us, and makes us feel so special.

Fiona Thrust

#20. To lust for something is desire turned selfish and gone mad. To embrace God's passion is desire turned selfless and gone mindful.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. 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

#22. Dancing was like sex, and I knew when she and I were together it would be amazing. Physical desire and lust had nothing to do with it. We just understood when the other person would move before the actually did it.

E.L. Todd

#23. Americans are being poisoned, all in the name of profit, producing a weak-minded race of people who are given to lust and desire.

Lynn Cullen

#24. You're flattered because he wants to sleep with you? Who doesn't he want to sleep with?

Donna Lynn Hope

#25. Cultivate confidence, and eradicate the need to control.

T.F. Hodge

#26. You see, I know you, Violet. You've tormented me in my dreams with your body too many times to count. Now you're here in the flesh, with your ripe curves and innocent eyes, an angel hidden in the body of a temptress.

Rose Wynters

#27. If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of the green frog skin, by people who are mindful of their own self, forgetting about the wants of others.

John Fire Lame Deer

#28. He once had lips as cold as stone and a heart that equally matched, but I had managed to warm him up and now all I could sense was his need for me.

Jason Lloyd

#29. The supernova sun would be cooler than the fire lighting our desire.

Missy Lyons

#30. We all have a sea inside us; can you hear it? Can you hear the ocean roaring?

Dianna Hardy

#31. He desired her and, so far as her virginal emotions went, she contemplated a surrender with equanimity. Yet she knew she would forget him half an hour after she left him - like an actor kissed in a picture.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#32. We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.

Nenia Campbell

#33. Desire is the kind of thing that
eats you
and
leaves you starving.

Nayyirah Waheed

#34. Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#35. I'm pretty sure battle strategies and combat techniques don't cover desire and lust.

Tracey Steinbach

#36. The soul which is led by God and His wisdom, rather than by bodily concupiscence, will certainly never consent to the desire aroused in its own flesh by another's lust.

Augustine Of Hippo

#37. Feel my passion,
Taste my desire,
Unite and intertwine our emotions,
Dare to be one with me,
I in return will allow you to touch my soul.

Truth Devour

#38. 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.

Judith Viorst

#39. Where there is desire, the means to fulfill it are endless.

A.J. Darkholme

#40. Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with that desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformity horribly reproduces the shape.

Georges Bernanos

#41. Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Ayn Rand

#42. I won't let you have it. I won't give you this moment. I won't let you fill up this valuable organ ... I own it. I won't do it. I can't think, I won't think about it.

Coco J. Ginger

#43. Whether this desire for sex is moderate or not, it is usually called lust.

Baruch Spinoza

#44. Desire doesn't want exposure, the light or the sun. Lust seeks darkness, a deep, secret heat, something buried, a treasure to find.

Selena Kitt

#45. She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed you to suffer for it.

Charles Bukowski

#46. Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism.

Bryant McGill

#47. There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because those who truly love do not desire power.

Alison Croggon

#48. lust, greed, desire, and supremacy;

Karen Marie Moning

#49. The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.

Frank Scoblete

#50. Apsaras are nymphs of lust and desire, they cannot beget without love. But then, neither do they know what love is. They are not supposed to fall in love.

Kavita Kane

#51. He could have watched her all night. He could watch her for an eternity and still never be able to capture the essence of what it is that makes 'love'.

Dianna Hardy

#52. She waited for him with shallow breaths, head thrown back, eyes half closed, completely exposed in her trust of him, and it unravelled the last thread holding him together.

Dianna Hardy

#53. I had a dream that Zac Effron showed up at my door shirtless with a bouquet of flowers..yep, I'm still waiting on that one to come true.

Starley Ard

#54. Secretly," he mumbled in a quieter tone, "I've always wanted to know what it would feel like to lust, to hunger for something different. But I've never been able to imagine ever experiencing that kind of desire.

Kellie Thacker

#55. It was not lust itself he felt, but the premonition of desire, as if the wind that whipped around his cravat were whispering in his ears. /Her. Choose her./

Courtney Milan

#56. It blurred the lines between lust and inspiration in a way we've always intuitively known they should be blurred, because desire underlies every act of creation.

Leah Raeder

#57. I'd heard about people falling in love, and I'd heard about lust. What I had never heard about was this all-consuming need to be inside another human being. I felt this desperate compulsion to become one with him. This was desire. This was to crave. This was what if felt like to want.

Ella Frank

#58. To see her is to be seduced by her.

Kamand Kojouri

#59. A slow trickle of lust crawled painfully down the parched gully of desire, and ended feebly in dry fumbling lechery.

Thomas Wolfe

#60. I still couldn't banish the image of the Quetzal Flower. In my mind, it merged with that of Priestess Eleuia: everything a man could desire or aspire to, a woman who would suck the marrow from your bones and still leave you smiling.

Aliette De Bodard

#61. Lust is different from desire. There are women who will gladly assuage your lust. I will not.
"You want me. I heard it. I feel it."
It matters little what we want, I shot back, using his words against him. I may be your weapon. But I am not your queen.

Amy Harmon

#62. Build my night with your cheeks.

Malak El Halabi

#63. Do no drown me with mediocrity, give me passion, desire, make me inhale breaths of lust and love in the dark hours that tingle down my spine...

Virginia Alison

#64. I want to need you.

Amanda Mosher

#65. I was hot and horny as hell.
Which was typical of me. I'm twenty-five, and I'm healthy, and a healthy girl is always thinking about sex.

Fiona Thrust

#66. The most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh, its indolence and sluggishness, our tendency to become creatures of habit.

Sigrid Undset

#67. He is insatiable in love. His wife is a great cook.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#68. Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.
Good things come to those who wait.

Jess C. Scott

#69. 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

#70. Lust is a tool, desire a trap. Wield the first, and you can take someone's soul. Fall into the second, and they can take yours. ~ Isadora Conti to Grayson van Court

Riley Shane

#71. The ads made me feel bilious and love-stricken, invaded and debauched by a coldly mechanical lust for whatever fetish the desire machines were pushing at their victims at any given instant.

Charles Stross

#72. Lust is weak desire. A woman without a good head on her shoulders is nothing but a piece of meat.

Kool Moe Dee

#73. And somewhere amidst the storm raging inside, between the twilight of lust and desire, entwined within the whirlwind of swirling emotions, it happened. In one lightning strike, the illusion crumbled. For I realised the naked truth...

Virginia Alison

#74. He gave Dancer one last pat. 'You're luckier than you know, pal. Living without a set of balls makes life a lot less complicated.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#75. And there was born that so mysterious thing that we call 'love' between man and woman; the thing that transcends, uplifts, indeed is the sole enoblement of our act of lust.

Bryan Islip

#76. You can never quench the desires of the greedy.
Do not attempt to quench the desires of the lustful.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#77. I had possessed her - and she never knew it.

Vladimir Nabokov

#78. To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways ... (The Rape Of The Swan)
Footnote : A form of self-edification, infatuation, lust and the epitome of hedonism.

Archibald MacLeish

#79. The way he looked me up and down made a part of me burn with desire. Fire and electricity. Flames and sparks. Needing and wanting. Tempting temptation.

Angela Richardson

#80. Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of gain, and anger. And this truth is with us!

Swami Vivekananda

#81. The timbre of his voice went into that low register that made my insides curl in on themselves
it was like my uterus was tapping out a happy dance on the rest of my organs.

Cora Carmack

#82. The human body is the best work of art.

Jess C. Scott

#83. This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth.

Steve Almond

#84. The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.

A.E. Samaan

#85. When his lips return to mine, it's not just about lust or desire - it's about making us whole.

Jessica Sorensen

#86. You don't find the concept of illicit love at all engaging?"
"The concept, maybe. But in literature? That's like ordering a glass of tap water at a bar.

Nenia Campbell

#87. There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.

Rumi

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

Dallas Willard

#89. Douglas's fridge was a stainless-steel masterpiece. I'm not that into appliances or anything, but this one was nice and probably cost more than my last apartment. I had the strange desire to hug it every time I came into the kitchen.

Lish McBride

#90. Craig." I tried to plead as lust and desire fogged my brain. "Please, just leave me alone."
"But I can't seem to help myself," he murmured seconds before his lips brushed gently over mine.

Samantha Young

#91. We weren't ashamed to enjoy food and alcohol in moderation - why were we so afraid of sex?

Sierra Simone

#92. Miranda looked up at him through a haze of desire, her will consumed by a fierce crackling heat, just like the dry twigs of the old woman's fire.

Anya Seton

#93. When someone covets something they desire and lust over it.Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem ...

Sara Shepard

#94. As my muscles marginally relax, the tension flicks from anger to fevered desire. I want to tear each wisp of clothing off her and tie her to this f**king desk. I'll know next time, to bring my satin ribbon.

M.R. Field

#95. Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.

Criss Jami

#96. Love spells are nothing but wives' tales. You can't play magic inside the heart, for it's more powerful than any spell. Lust you can order up with a wink, desire with a smile. But love is love, and there is nothing can touch it.

Nora Roberts

#97. All I wanted was to share myself with him ... in a love way, lust way, every kind of way.

Jess C. Scott

#98. Each night I lie and dream about the one
Who kissed me and awakened my desire
I spent a single hour with him alone
And since that hour, my days are layed with fire.

L.J.Smith

#99. She could have had an affair with him. He was a devout Muslim, as were all the guerrillas, but she doubted whether that would have made any difference. She believed what her father had used to say: "Religious conviction may thwart a timid desire but nothing can stand against genuine lust.

Ken Follett

#100. Nothing turned a man on faster than a woman that couldn't get enough of what he had to offer.

Rose Wynters