Lust Quotes

Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.

One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.

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

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

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

Lechery is secretive, but must finally reveal itself to at least one.

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.

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

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

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

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."

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.

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.

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

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.

I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.

Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust.

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

Technology is lust removed from nature.

Anxiety and lust are evicting the older passions.

Laughter scares off lust.

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

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

I don't think we can ever learn much from ultra-sensitive, shifty faces, skilled in disguise, that hide themselves in lust, as beasts hide to die.

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

Lust is the base of most physical ills, and like a tapeworm in the system, it feeds on our best energies and vitality.

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than of lust.

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.

So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.

Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed and lust.

So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.

I loved life too much to lust for life.

I think I can speak on behalf of women and say that every woman wants a man who just loves them and lusts after them.

In our lust for measurement, we frequently measure that which we can rather than that which we wish to measure... and forget that there is a difference.

Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.

Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point.

Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.

But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place.

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.

Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.

Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I for one must get it out.

The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.

There is not only a lack of success for condoms. It's worse than that - they are utter failures.

I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried to welcome me, but my soul drew back, guilty of lust and sin.

A man lusts to become a god... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?

Where you find the attraction for lust and wealth considerably diminished, to whatever creed he may belong, know that his inner spirit is awakening.

All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.

I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily.

When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.