Quote by Philip Roth Download Open image ““Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the mania of lust.”” — Philip Roth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Lust is a dangerous thing. It can make you believe things that are not real. It can seduce your mind and lead it blindfolded… — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
“Any aggressive lust lacks balance and is unwholesome and obstructive.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“It is well known that lust brings madness and desperation and ruin. But upon my oath, I never meant any harm. All I wanted… — Fiona Mountain Copy Share Image
“This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Lust is a lot like a slow brained dog. It slobbers a lot and jumps up on people at the most inopportune time.” — John Goode Copy Share Image
“Ego and lust are the two biggest obstacles of life that every man finds it difficult to overcome!” — Fahad Basheer Copy Share Image
“What distinguishes all love from lust is the fact that it bears an impress of eternity.” — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“For in truth lust is made out of a perverse will, and when lust is served, it becomes habit, and when habit is not… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“A frenzy of activity that had mostly led him in circles: wasn't that a fairly accurate description of lust?” — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“The old intergenerational give-and-take of the country-that-used-to-be, when everyone knew his role and took the rules dead seriously, the acculturating back-and-forth that all of… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The only way to have a funeral is to invite everyone who ever knew the person and just wait for the accident to happen-somebody… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“There are no reasons. She is obliged to be as she is. We all are. Reasons are in books.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see there is no conquering or exorcising the past with words - words born either of imagination or forthrightness.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“What is astonishing is that we, who had no idea how anything was going to turn out, now know exactly what happened.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere! — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Better for real things to be uncontrollable, better for one's life to be undecipherable and intellectually impenetrable than to attempt to make casual sense… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image