Beast Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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

People who have let go of themselves are so pure that the world cannot harm them.

— Meister Eckhart

Throw out the fun-killers that you carry about with yourselves all the time. Three of them are lust, greed, and hatred.

— Dada Vaswani

The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness.

— Eric Hoffer

It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most…

— Kate Elliott

Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them,…

— Gautama Buddha

People who have lust in their heart as just as guilty as those who commit adultery.

— Jimmy Carter

“Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable…

— Mary Shelley

There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking…

— Eric Hoffer

Wickedness is nourished by lust.

— Aristotle

Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness…

— Pliny the Elder

“Narcissists have poor self-esteem, but they are typically very successful. They feel entitled; they’re self-important; they crave admiration and lack empathy. They are also…

— Janet M. Tavakoli