LUST QUOTES V

quotations about lust

A satyr, which is half man and half beast, is the emblem of lust; to show that its followers prostitute the reason of man to gratify the appetites of a beast.

J. N. FUNCK

attributed, Day's Collacon


What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?

ALEXANDRA IVY

Embrace the Darkness


Love lives with Nature, not with lust.
Go find her in the flowers.

JOHN CLARE

"Stanzas", Selected Poems


O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.

FRANCIS QUARLES

Emblems


Lust is what it is; it never lies.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Flirt

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But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

BIBLE

Matthew 5:28

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Lust has no eyes.

TAMIL PROVERB


Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.

ST. BASIL

attributed, Day's Collacon


So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

attributed, The Seven Deadly Sins: A Companion

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Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others.

HERBERT SPENCER

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Lust is a desire against reason, a furious and unbridled appetite, which killeth all good notions in man's mind, and leaveth no place for virtue.

THOMAS JEVON

attributed, Day's Collacon


Lust is the base of most physical ills, and like a tapeworm in the system, it feeds on our best energies and vitality.

J. USHER

attributed, Day's Collacon


Lustful Desire (although 'twere rather fit
To some brute creature to attribute it)
Shall be presented in the second place,
Because it shrouds a vile deformed face
Beneath love's vizard, and assumes that name,
Hiding its own fault with the other's blame.

GEORGE WITHER

"Of Desire, or Lust", Poems


Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ... ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

MARQUIS DE SADE

attributed, Lust: A Dictionary for the Insatiable


What's wrong with lust or covetousness, or concupiscence or libido? Aren't they natural? Yes indeed -- viciously natural. For in this context they signify disordered or discordant appetites, especially the disordered or discordant sexual appetite.

EDMUND HILL

Being Human: A Biblical Perspective


Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.

ZOROASTER

attributed, Day's Collacon


A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit,
Confounded in that Babel of the pit;
Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild,
Sick lust of souls, and an abortive child;
Born between whores and fops, by lewd compacts,
Before the play, or else between the acts;
Nor wonder, if from such polluted minds
Should spring such short and transitory kinds.

JONATHAN SWIFT

"To Mr. Congreve", The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous poems

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Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust
Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel;
And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds,
Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.

JOHN MILTON

Comus: A Masque


It is the grand battle of life, to teach lust the limits of divine law, to break it into the taste of bread of heaven, and make it understand that man doth not live by bread alone, but by every word that cometh out of the mouth of God.

J. B. BROWN

attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical


Lust is not the real issue. It is a branch, along with a myriad of others, which receives its nourishment from roots that go deep into apathy, idleness, and unbelief. Addressing only lust is just trimming branches. I will continue to struggle with lust if I spend all my time focusing on only beating lust, so to speak.

ABBIE SMITH

Can You Keep Your Faith in College?