Lust Quotes
People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.
Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain, the getting out of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi- lust of intentional indifference. Be wet with a decent happiness.
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.
Our need to knock celebrities is...Twisted: it's deep in the mid-brain below the survival instinct. That lust to see a downfall. It's animalistic.
Let, then, the word be preached, and the sins of men will be rebuked, lust will be restrained, and some oppositions will be made against sin, though that be not the effect aimed at.
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?
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.
It is very simple, actually. It is because you and Tengo were so powerfully drawn to each other.
It's a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.
A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute.
A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.
It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.
I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.
Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.
Henry closed his eyes and imagined the sweet petulant woundedness with which she had stared at him on the beach. He felt a little proud that she could love him.
You can't love someone just by looking at them. That is lust. Not saying love can't come fast, but it doesn't come first.
Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight.
...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.
There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do
The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.
Craving for power is not a vice of the body, consequently it knows none of the limitations imposed by a tired or satiated physiology upon gluttony, intemperance and lust
They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.
I was asking about lust, wasnʼt I? I was fairly certain of it. But isnʼt love supposed to come before lust? It does in the dictionary.
Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.
Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.
The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection; the object thou burnest for nauseates with satiety, and no sooner hadst thou possessed it, but thou wert weary of its presence.
The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
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.
How could you do nothing to him, if you fought so hard?” she asked. “I’m lust and he’s wrath!” he yelled. “I’m a lover, he’s a fighter!” Virtue - A Fairy Tale
Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth
When someone covets something they desire and lust over it.Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem.
If you lust after someone and have an absurd and overwhelming need to protect them, then the best way to deal with the situation is to marry the person.
You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?
It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.
Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it.
Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.
Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.