LUST QUOTES

quotations about lust

Lust quote

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves.

LAURA ESQUIVEL

Like Water for Chocolate

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Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.

DEMONAX

attributed, Day's Collacon


Lust on this scale was rare: it seemed a crime to waste it.

GUY BELLAMY

The Nudists

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Why drown in love when you can have so much fun swimming in lust?

J. M. DARHOWER

Sempre


I'd call it love if love
didn't take so many years
but lust too is a jewel.

ADRIENNE RICH

Necessities of Life

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Lusts are the cords with which Satan binds men; our fiery trials are God's messengers sent to loose these bands.

A. RITCHIE

attributed, Day's Collacon


Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.

TOM ROBBINS

Skinny Legs and All

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There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.

ANNE FORTIER

Juliet


Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

FREDERICK BUECHNER

Beyond Words


Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.

CLAUDIAN

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Then a lightning bolt shot straight through my skivvies. Sha-ZAM!

MEGAN MCCAFFERTY

Sloppy Firsts


Between the horses of love and lust we are trampled underfoot.

U2

"So Cruel", Achtung Baby

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Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

JOHN LAHR

The Guardian, Aug. 1989


To lust is human. To love is divine.

ANONYMOUS

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Lust carries her sharp whip
At her own girdle.

JOHN WEBSTER

The White Devil

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There is no disease so destructive as lust.

CHANAKYA

Vridda-Chanakya

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If they substituted the word "Lust" for "Love" in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

SYLVIA PLATH

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

FRANCIS QUARLES

Emblems

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People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. Your desire for the illusory is a wing, by means of which a seeker might ascend to Reality. When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame and that fantasy flees. Preserve the wing and don't indulge such lust, so that the wing of desire may bear you to Paradise. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.

JALALUDDIN RUMI

The Pocket Rumi Reader

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Lust is a tool, desire a trap. Wield the first, and you can take someone's soul. Fall into the second, and they can take yours.

RILEY SHANE

Blood Rose