Lust Quotes

Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and permits truth, virtue, and integrity to rule our minds instead.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

True Love gives you Peace! It doesn't consume you with anxiety, that's lust!

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and [contraception] , no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her.

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

I think that love should be greater than your lust for each other.

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.

It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.

Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties?

Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill.

I wonder what the difference is between love and lust.

Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism.

It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.

If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.

I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured.

Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?

Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. "The wait will be fun, but it's not going to be easy."

Lust weakens both body and mind.

Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.

Filthy talk makes us feel comfortable with filthy action. But the one who knows how to control the tongue is prepared to resist the attacks of lust

The truth is, a man can choose to objectify a woman whether she’s wearing a bikini or a burqa. We don’t stop lust by covering up the female form; we stop lust by teaching men to treat women as human beings worthy of respect.

Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.

We got to mediate our greedy levels, Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.

I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York.

Gotta be more than grabbing nines to buck tin in, gotta be more than just to lust women, gotta be more than platinum Rolexes.

Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment - These are all paths to hell.

Lust is the sin that gets me excited. Luckily, because I'm married, I also get really good jewelry out of it.

Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.

Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

I've been feeling everything. From hate to love. From love to lust. From lust to truth. I guess that's how I know you.

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

Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men's lusts, but cannot change their hearts.

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.

Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.