Quotes of Lust - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ Lust is the craving for salt of a person who is dying of thirst. ”

- Frederick Buechner

“ Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. ”

- Thomas Otway

“ If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. ”

- Jimmy Carter

“ Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes. ”

- Marquis de Sade

“ Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. ”

- John Lahr

“ Ignorance is like the itch — the less you have of it the better off you are. ”

- Harry Mendelson

“ The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others. ”

- J. Saunders Redding

“ Sexuality is overtly talked about now but wasn't really in those days. ”

- Robert Osborne

“ And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins. ”

- Thomas Keneally

“ There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth…lust. When he is strong…quarrelsomeness. When he is old…covetousness. ”

- Confucius

“ Curiosity was a form of lust, a wandering cupidity of the eye and the mind. ”

- John Crowley

“ Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion. ”

- Calvin Miller

“ Women make love for love, men make love for lust. ”

- Derrick Harge

“ The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love. ”

- Doug Horton

“ But I say to you, that every one who looks on a woman to lust for her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ Curiosity is the lust of the mind. ”

- Thomas Hobbes

“ Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust. ”

- Jean Baudrillard

“ For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand. ”

- James Elroy Flecker

“ God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat. ”

- Martin Luther

“ Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust. ”

- Piers Paul Read

“ The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ There is a lust in man no charm can tame: of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame. On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die. ”

- William Harvey

“ Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing. ”

- Lord Moulton

“ When a woman wants a man and lusts after him, the lover need not bother to conjure up opportunities, for she will find more in an hour than we men could think of in a century. ”

- Unknown

“ The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away. ”

- Alicia Barnhart
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