quotations about lust
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
But in the morning Lust is always furtive. It dresses as mechanically as it undressed and heads straight for the door, to return to its own solitude. Like all the sins, it also makes us solitary. It is self-abdication at the very core of one's own being, a surrender of our need and ability to give and receive. Lust does not come with open hands, certainly not with an open heart. It comes only with open legs.
HENRY FAIRLIE
The Seven Deadly Sins of Today
Sodom and Madonna-ism are two halves of the same movement, the mere tick-tack of lust and asceticism, pietism and pornography.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Introductions and Reviews
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
Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
MARQUIS DE SADE
attributed, Memorable Quotations: French Writers of the Past
Wickedness is nourished by lust.
ARISTOTLE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.
ST. AUGUSTINE
attributed, Lust: A Dictionary for the Insatiable
Lust is the cause of generation.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life