quotations about lust
Love comforteth, like sunshine after rain,
But lust's effect is tempest after sun;
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain,
Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done.
Love surfeits not; lust like a glutton dies:
Love is all truth; lust full of forged lies.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Venus and Adonis
Of woman's unnatural, insatiable lust, what country, what village doth not complain?
ROBERT BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Lust is a vice sooner condemned than banished; easily spoke against, but yet it will fawn as smoothly on our flesh as Circe on the Graecian travelers, when she detained them in the shape of beasts.
W. MASON
attributed, Day's Collacon
But stain'd with sensuality and lust,
The human mind lay prostrate in the dust.
ROSWELL PARK
"The Progress of Liberty", Selections of Juvenile and Miscellaneous Poems: Written Or Translated
Make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.
BIBLE
Romans 13:14
But when Lust
By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk,
But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin,
Lets in defilement to the inward parts,
The soul grows clotted by contagion,
Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose
The divine property of her first being.
JOHN MILTON
"Comus", Poems Upon Several Occasions
Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.
PLATO
attributed, Day's Collacon
I lost the love of heaven above
I spurned the lust of earth below
I felt the sweets of fancied love
And hell itself my only foe.
JOHN CLARE
"A Vision", Poems of John Clare's Madness
Lusts must be mortified.
A. G. HALL
attributed, Day's Collacon
Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.
POPE PIUS II
attributed, Day's Collacon
A lot of us have developed a diet mentality toward lust. We really want to cut back on lust because we know its not healthy and it makes us feel bad. But like some rich, calorie-laden chocolate dessert, lust is just too tasty to resist completely. Surely God will understand if we break our diet and nibble a little lust now and then.
JOSHUA HARRIS
Sex Is Not the Problem (Lust Is)
Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.
DIOGENES
attributed, Day's Collacon
Lust is a monstrous sin which altereth, marreth, and drieth the body, weakening all the joints and members, making the face bubbled and yellow, shortening life, diminishing memory, understanding, and the very heart.
C. HOPKINS
attributed, Day's Collacon
At the peak of this human agonized selfless tenderness (with my soul actually hanging around her naked body and ready to repent), all at once, ironically, horribly, lust would swell again--and 'oh, no,' Lolita would say with a sigh to heaven, and the next moment the tenderness and the azure--all would be shattered.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Lolita
Lust weakens both body and mind.
PYTHAGORAS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.
BIBLE
1 Peter 2:11
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
SENECA
attributed, Day's Collacon
What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?
ALEXANDRA IVY
Embrace the Darkness
Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.
B. HOLYDAY
attributed, Day's Collacon
Love lives with Nature, not with lust.
Go find her in the flowers.
JOHN CLARE
"Stanzas", Selected Poems