LUST QUOTES
quotations about lust
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
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
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
Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
FREDERICK BUECHNER
Beyond Words
Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.
TOM ROBBINS
Skinny Legs and All
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
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, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.
CLAUDIAN
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
Lust carries her sharp whip
At her own girdle.
JOHN WEBSTER
The White Devil
There is no disease so destructive as lust.
CHANAKYA
Vridda-Chanakya
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
To lust is human. To love is divine.
ANONYMOUS
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
JOHN LAHR
The Guardian, Aug. 1989
Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Emblems
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
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