Top 100 Quotes About Lust
#1. You see, passion alone is a blind power. It's fire without light. It just ignites whatever it touches, good or evil, truth or lies, unselfishness or selfishness, love or lust.
Peter Kreeft
#2. It had been love, and I'd meant it-the happiness, the lust, the peace... I'd felt all of those things. Once.
Sarah J. Maas
#3. To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about our failure to be or do perfectly as He wills is to reject the grace of God and to lead people to lust after self-help and self-improvemen t in a way that, to call a spade a spade, is godless.
Graeme Goldsworthy
#4. 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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#5. We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming wisdom / of the streets
Jim Morrison
#6. Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.
Tom Robbins
#7. The virtue of hope, in Enoch, was made up of two parts suspicion and one part lust.
Flannery O'Connor
#8. ... there is a very fine line between lust and anger; both are passionate emotions.
Sarah West
#9. Everyone knew that bastards were wanton and treacherous by nature, having been born of lust and deceit.
George R R Martin
#10. Today is made of yesterday, each time I steal
toward rites I do not know, waiting for the lost
ingredient, as if salt or money or even lust
would keep us calm and prove us whole at last.
Anne Sexton
#11. Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.
Dean Koontz
#12. She was able to feel active creation going on around her in the rocks and hills, where the mystery of lust took place; and in herself, where all was yet only the night of senses and wild dreams, the work of passion going on.
Christina Stead
#13. My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.
Mason Cooley
#14. He tasted of chocolate and man and I was coming out of my skin as lust stirred in the pit of my stomach, followed by a burst of fluttery panic.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#15. As I stared at him, elation,excitement, and lust began exploding within me like a fireworks display, rising within and bursting with a range of exquisite emotion that I had never known existed, let alone experienced, leaving me breathless, nervous, and excited.
Bindu Adai
#16. The first and most essential quality of a presidential candidate, as Averell Harriman once pointed out, is that he should lust for the job - he should want it more than all things, with a passion surpassing all emotion and probably even all principle.
Theodore H. White
#17. It was love that made each touch feel like redemption and each kiss feel like rebirth. Not lust. Not pleasure. It was love that created joy.
Amy Harmon
#18. Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?
Jay Asher
#19. But Lautner makes me feel beautiful. It's not lust, it's more. I recognize it. It's the way I look at a piece of art and see something nobody else does.
Jewel E. Ann
#20. Can often be confused with," he looked me dead in the eye, "lust.
A&E Kirk
#21. He [Jimmy Carter] says his lust is in his heart. I hope it's a little lower.
Shirley Maclaine
#22. When his lips return to mine, it's not just about lust or desire - it's about making us whole.
Jessica Sorensen
#24. Does she think she can keep fucking with my head and weaving her devious webs thinking I'll always get caught in them? She's toying with my lust for her, my obsession, and I keep letting her.
Shantaye Brown
#25. I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured.
Victoria Woodhull
#26. I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. 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
#28. But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
Edward Abbey
#29. Some people insist on inviting me to their drama buffet ... No thanks! My soul hungers for nourishment and growth; it doesn't lust for poison and depletion.
Steve Maraboli
#30. People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.
Konstantin Ushinsky
#31. 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.
Henry A. Wallace
#32. The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
Tacitus
#33. For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#34. 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.
Lance Loud
#35. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Sarah Price
#36. No passion, only sudden lust, and just as sudden indifference.
Clive Barker
#37. Romantic Suspense, we love you so.
You make us cringe, and give us hope.
Sometimes we lust,
sometimes we cry,
But in the end,
you make us sigh.
Maureen A. Miller
#38. But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
John Milton
#39. Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get.
Josh McDowell
#40. The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.
George Strait
#41. 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.
Johann Arndt
#42. And wasn't that what love was all about? Not the immediate bone-melting lust and roller-coaster emotions, but the promise of it all lasting, mellowing into something that got stronger, better every year.
Jane Davitt
#43. in sex and lust you can always trust, because sex has been good to me ; love hmmm not so much
Renee' A. Lee
#44. I sometimes wonder whether most people choose their hobbies because they lust after the gear more than for the benefits of the activities themselves.
Aidan Chambers
#46. 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
#47. To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.
Dallas Willard
#48. I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.
Rabih Alameddine
#49. 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."
P. J. O'Rourke
#50. A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.
John Carroll
#51. You seem to forget, Dickon, that we are dealing with the Spider King. Louis realized, just as you have, that it would take more to mate dog to cat than a shared lust for the English crown.
Sharon Kay Penman
#52. Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
Isabel Allende
#53. Women have hunger two-fold, shyness four-fold, daring six-fold, and lust eight-fold as compared to men.
Chanakya
#54. 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
#55. Lust magic is the same as date-rape drugs in human court, Uncle Taranis.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#56. Blood, pain and an all-surpassing lust for one man settled so deeply into his bones, the need had become part of him. Bottomless, like the touch he craved. Vadim.
Aleksandr Voinov
#57. Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what is should flee. Forgetting it once had a true lover. Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrifice will overcome seduction. And blood will flow.
Ted Dekker
#58. Only a fool loves war," said Calvar, "or a man who has never seen it. The trouble is that the survivors forget about the horrors and remember only the battle lust. They pass on that memory, and other men hunger for it.
David Gemmell
#59. You could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.
George Orwell
#60. To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!
Alexander Pope
#61. Marriage is the connecting of the two: Without passion it's just friendship; without friendship it's just lust.
Donna Lynn Hope
#63. David was "a star, the Elvis of the Bible." An unusually for such a rockstar with his lust for power, lust for women, lust for life, he had humility of one who knew his gift work harder than he ever would.
Bono
#64. Where Christianity disappears, greed, envy, and lust invent a thousand ideologies to justify themselves.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#65. 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.
Mortimer Adler
#66. This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Murray (WN 285)
Don DeLillo
#67. Cole had never been good with physical affection until her. Now his heart burned with their closeness - so much bigger and better than lust was this love.
Debra Anastasia
#68. Jesus calls for violence against our own lust because he loves our true and lasting joy.
John Piper
#69. Lust was edging confusion for the lead. Good sense had fallen far behind.
Teri Anne Stanley
#70. The Good News means we can stop lying to ourselves. The sweet sound of amazing grace saves us from the necessity of self-deception. It keeps us from denying that though Christ was victorious, the battle with lust, greed, and pride still rages within us.
Brennan Manning
#71. So, Diana thought, that was the bait she had to lay out for Jack. Of course. What else? He might lust for Diana, and long for Brianna, but Jack's true love was made of silicon.
Michael Grant
#72. I think that love should be greater than your lust for each other.
Toni Gonzaga
#73. Some weigh their pleasure by their lust, Their wisdom by their rage of will, Their treasure is their only trust; And cloake' d craft their store of skill. But all the pleasure that I find Is to maintain a quiet mind.
Edward Dyer
#74. I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.
Garrison Keillor
#75. I am here to fuck you. To take whatever depraved act you want to enact. I am here to feed from your merciless lust, and to quench the undying thirst for degradation you have." Snapping out of his shock, he laughed.
D.H. Sidebottom
#76. Was. He wasn't so much jealous as he wanted Kimiko to confess that she experienced lust independent of him - the thought of her sovereign lechery turned him on, because it frightened him.
Aleksandar Hemon
#77. 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.
David Gemmell
#78. I began to lust after our conjoining life.
Aspen Matis
#79. Here is how you know if it is love or lust. Push them in front of a bus. If you jump in the way and save them it is love.
Teresa Mummert
#80. If we accept that the love of praise is a sin, that the lust to be known and appreciated by others is not just a fool's errand...but perhaps evidence of a heart focused on the wrong things, our marriages will be transformed.
Gary Thomas
#81. 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
#82. No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#83. And scared through my system - adrenaline mixed with lust and longing. It's a heady, potent cocktail. Christian's stance has changed completely,
E.L. James
#84. Or is that the nature of lust? It's like an urge that disregards all the stuff that your brain knows you actually think.
I wonder if guys feel like this all the time. Or maybe if everyone feels like this all the time - everyone besides me - and that's why people act like such half-wits.
E. Lockhart
#85. The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.
Sarah Moore Grimke
#86. 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
#88. Love can exist only after meditation, not before it. That is a simple existential law. Before meditation - only lust, only sexuality. Before meditation you are an animal and not really a human being. With meditation a transformation comes: you become human, and out of your humanness, love flows.
Rajneesh
#89. All I wanted was to share myself with him ... in a love way, lust way, every kind of way.
Jess C. Scott
#90. I actually have a little time to read, so I'm indulging in the newest Laurelin Paige novel, full of lust and sex and lots of romance. Romance novels are my biggest guilty pleasure. And this woman can write.
Kristen Proby
#92. Isle with a Car Lust look back at what may be the most famous motor vehicle ever assembled there. Of course we're
Anonymous
#93. Everything could be reasoned away or made to look silly with enough rational scrutiny. Faith, love, hope, lust, anger, sadness, compassion - everything.
Penny Reid
#94. Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either in love or lust, is born in pain, followed by joy or sometimes remorse. A midwife is in the thick of it, she sees it all.
Jennifer Worth
#95. Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.
Eloisa James
#96. There is no halfway or lackadaisical way to fight lust. If you're not fighting your sin, you're befriending your sin.
Trip Lee
#97. We are poison to one another, a dangerous brew of lust and lies that threatens to obliterate us and anyone in our path.
--Novak
Suzanne Steele
#98. He feared that if he merely hopped in, and out of bed with different women, using sex to find love, then he would become so confused in lust he'd forget what he had been looking for in the first place.
Felix Alexander
#99. My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.
Robert E. Howard
#100. Everybody wants power. Power in some form or other. [ ... ] Some people want power to persecute other human beings; you expend your lust for power in persecuting words, twisting them, molding them, torturing them to obey you.
Aldous Huxley
