Lust Quotes

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.

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

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.

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

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.

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.

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

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

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.

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.

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

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.

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

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

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.