quotations about lust
Love lives with Nature, not with lust.
Go find her in the flowers.
JOHN CLARE
"Stanzas", Selected Poems
Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.
ST. ANSELM
attributed, Day's Collacon
Lust is what it is; it never lies.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Flirt
O lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Emblems
Lust is not the real issue. It is a branch, along with a myriad of others, which receives its nourishment from roots that go deep into apathy, idleness, and unbelief. Addressing only lust is just trimming branches. I will continue to struggle with lust if I spend all my time focusing on only beating lust, so to speak.
ABBIE SMITH
Can You Keep Your Faith in College?
Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
The Killing Dance
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
BIBLE
Matthew 5:28
Lust has no eyes.
TAMIL PROVERB
Lust is a desire against reason, a furious and unbridled appetite, which killeth all good notions in man's mind, and leaveth no place for virtue.
THOMAS JEVON
attributed, Day's Collacon
Lust is the base of most physical ills, and like a tapeworm in the system, it feeds on our best energies and vitality.
J. USHER
attributed, Day's Collacon
The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt.
PLATO
Phaedo
Lustful Desire (although 'twere rather fit
To some brute creature to attribute it)
Shall be presented in the second place,
Because it shrouds a vile deformed face
Beneath love's vizard, and assumes that name,
Hiding its own fault with the other's blame.
GEORGE WITHER
"Of Desire, or Lust", Poems
Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust
Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel;
And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds,
Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.
JOHN MILTON
Comus: A Masque
So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
attributed, The Seven Deadly Sins: A Companion
Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.
ST. BASIL
attributed, Day's Collacon
Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.
ZOROASTER
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others.
HERBERT SPENCER
attributed, Day's Collacon
It is the grand battle of life, to teach lust the limits of divine law, to break it into the taste of bread of heaven, and make it understand that man doth not live by bread alone, but by every word that cometh out of the mouth of God.
J. B. BROWN
attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical
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