Lust Quotes

829 Lust quotes by 593 unique authors

She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling… — Joyce Carol Oates
Our present culture, however, specializes in inflaming endless lust for possessions with advertisements that constantly convince us that we need more (particularly to create the… — Marva Dawn
The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man. — Samuel Johnson
There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame. — Juvenal
Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like… — Ben Jonson
To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise! — Alexander Pope
There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays… — Unknown Author
The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon… — Bertrand Russell
The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and… — John Chancellor
If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then… — Chanakya
Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black? — Jay Asher
But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate. — Casey Affleck
Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the… — Lawren Harris
There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to… — William Osler
Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks… — Pope Clement I
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction. — Rachel Carson
Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger. — Pythagoras
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts — Saint Peter
There is certainly no single remedy for this condition and I am offering no panacea. But it seems reasonable to believe â€” and I do… — Rachel Carson
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… — Unknown Author

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