Lust Quotes

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Woman, Become

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Mahatma Gandhi

Death, Enough, Die

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Khalil Gibran

House, Comfort, Master

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.
Keira Knightley

Jealousy, Anger, Fake

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
Tori Amos

Love, Trust, Someone

The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.
Dave Mustaine

Fun, Help, Envy

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
Marquis de Sade

Passion, Demands, Served

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
Michel de Montaigne

Find, Same, Reason

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
Henry A. Wallace

Money, Power, Him

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.
Mason Cooley

Love, Image, Begins

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
Mortimer Adler

Love, Selfish, Give

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
Mason Cooley

Greed, Innocence, Gullible

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
E. M. Forster

Love, Struggle, Together

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

Themselves, Call, Hunger

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
Abu Bakr

Anger, Greed, Follow

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

Women, Rock, Sex

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
Jimmy Carter

Women, God, Heart

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
Mortimer Adler

Love, Wrong, Another

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
Aleister Crowley

Woman, Kiss, Touch

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

Love, Sense, Reason

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Thomas Hobbes

Mind, Curiosity

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.
Judith Viorst

Love, Makes, Desire

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.
Danielle Steel

Love, Nice, Important

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

Love, Romantic, True

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
Saadi

Kindness, Enemy, Friend

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

Life, Strength, Revenge

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
A. Bartlett Giamatti

Society, Mind, Simple

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

Die, While, Born

Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
Marquis de Sade

Powerful, Two, Variety

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
Karl Kraus

Christian, Morality, Follow

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