Lust Quotes
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Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
Ethel Waters -
It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.
Ava Gardner
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The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.
T. H. White -
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Thomas Otway -
All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.
Vladimir Nabokov -
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
George Bernard Shaw -
Your Nafs is just like a suckling child. If you do not take the pains to wean him, he will yearn for his mother's breast even when he's grown up. Therefore you should not try to satisfy your lust by indulging in sins. This will only increase the desire for more sins. The same is the case with the disease of gluttony. The more a person eats, the more his hunger increases.
Busiri -
I bought abandon dear And sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.
Abu Nuwas
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Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.
Sarah Churchwell -
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
William Penn -
Satan cannot create anything new, cannot create anything at all. He must steal what God has created. Thus he twists love and God's wonderful gift of sex into lust and sadism and myriad perversions. He disfigures the heart's deep desire to worship God and persuades us to bow before lesser gods of lust or money or power.
Catherine Marshall -
A foolish picture I live in disgust, degradation being eaten by lust.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
Tacitus -
The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.
William Ellery Channing
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Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust.
Daniel Noonan -
Light and lust are deadly enemies.
William Shakespeare -
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Thomas Hobbes -
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Khalil Gibran -
Lust weakens both body and mind.
Pythagoras -
He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. "The wait will be fun, but it's not going to be easy."
Amy Plum
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Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts?
William Gurnall -
It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted.
Kate Elliott -
Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill.
Cato the Younger -
Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds.
Narayanananda Swami