quotations about lust
But stain'd with sensuality and lust,
The human mind lay prostrate in the dust.
ROSWELL PARK
"The Progress of Liberty", Selections of Juvenile and Miscellaneous Poems: Written Or Translated
Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
But when Lust
By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk,
But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin,
Lets in defilement to the inward parts,
The soul grows clotted by contagion,
Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose
The divine property of her first being.
JOHN MILTON
"Comus", Poems Upon Several Occasions
Of woman's unnatural, insatiable lust, what country, what village doth not complain?
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.
BIBLE
Romans 13:14
Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.
PLATO
attributed, Day's Collacon
Whoever restraineth his soul from unlawful lust, verily Paradise shall be his abode.
AS-SAMMAK
attributed, Day's Collacon
I lost the love of heaven above
I spurned the lust of earth below
I felt the sweets of fancied love
And hell itself my only foe.
JOHN CLARE
"A Vision", Poems of John Clare's Madness
Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.
POPE PIUS II
attributed, Day's Collacon
Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.
ST. ANSELM
attributed, Day's Collacon
Lusts must be mortified.
A. G. HALL
attributed, Day's Collacon
Lust is a monstrous sin which altereth, marreth, and drieth the body, weakening all the joints and members, making the face bubbled and yellow, shortening life, diminishing memory, understanding, and the very heart.
C. HOPKINS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.
DIOGENES
attributed, Day's Collacon
A lot of us have developed a diet mentality toward lust. We really want to cut back on lust because we know its not healthy and it makes us feel bad. But like some rich, calorie-laden chocolate dessert, lust is just too tasty to resist completely. Surely God will understand if we break our diet and nibble a little lust now and then.
JOSHUA HARRIS
Sex Is Not the Problem (Lust Is)
Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.
BIBLE
1 Peter 2:11
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
SENECA
attributed, Day's Collacon
Lust weakens both body and mind.
PYTHAGORAS
attributed, Day's Collacon
At the peak of this human agonized selfless tenderness (with my soul actually hanging around her naked body and ready to repent), all at once, ironically, horribly, lust would swell again--and 'oh, no,' Lolita would say with a sigh to heaven, and the next moment the tenderness and the azure--all would be shattered.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Lolita
Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
The Killing Dance
Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.
B. HOLYDAY
attributed, Day's Collacon