Boredom Quote by Mignon McLaughlin

The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious appetite, inflamed…

— Edwin Louis Cole

“When sex was something godlike, Lust was the profane curiosity that killed many a straying cat. Now, having removed mystery, Lust is less a…

— Geoffrey Wood

“Lust was so delightfully uncomplicated and straightforward, while female friendships were inevitably layered with conditions, and history, and unspoken rules of behavior.”

— Katharine McGee

Most people understand that sexual lust has to do with propagating genes. Copulation in nature tends to lead to reproduction and so to more…

— Richard Dawkins

Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body…

— Jeremy Taylor

Promiscuity is the death of love.

— Edna O'Brien

Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.

— Anselm of Canterbury

Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.

— Diogenes

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

— Blaise Pascal

I consider promiscuity immoral. Not because sex is evil, but because sex is too good and too important.

— Ayn Rand

Lust is a ruinous and otherwise gratuitous, malignant desire. It's is a hunger for that which should never be consumed; it's a thirst for…

— Colby Tatem

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…

— Chrissie Hynde