Lust Quotes - Page 23

• The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Art, Made

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• To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven. In general, people savor the "pleasures of the flesh" only on the condition that they may be insipid.

  Georges Bataille

  Fear, Eye, People

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• My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.

  Graham Greene

  Passion, Simple, Forever

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• He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret

  Joseph Heller

  Regret, Sick, Mesmerized

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What I sought was the sense of being tossed about by some raging, savage force, in the midst of which lay something absolutely crucial. I had no idea what that was. But I wanted to thrust my hand right inside her body and touch it, whatever it was.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hands, Ideas, Savages

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• How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust. And against that the jaw sets. The more I fear my own insanity the more I must punish yours.

  Kate Millett

  Crazy, Insanity, Madness

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.68, University of Illinois Press

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• In our lust for measurement, we frequently measure that which we can rather than that which we wish to measure... and forget that there is a difference.

  Udny Yule

  Differences, Wish, Statistics

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• the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the disinclinations of the flesh, its indolence and sluggishness, our tendency to become creatures of habit.

  Sigrid Undset

  Flames, Temptation, Desire

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• There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.

  Rumi

  Integrity, Moving, Wind

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2000). “Feeling the Shoulder of the Lion: Poetry and Teaching Stories of Rumi”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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• People never know how strong is their lust for being cheated.

  Joe Chung

  Cheating, Strong, People

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• Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

  Irving Babbitt

  Three, Christianity, Type

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• Someone asked me about the difference between love and lust. Hmmm. That will take a little thought. How to tell the difference? Well, for guys, if she looks better AFTER you've made love to her than before, that might be love. If you find yourself itching to get out the door afterward, probably just lust, y'know?

  Steven Barnes

  Doors, Differences, Guy

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• 'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts... We must set the soul free from it; we must behold things as they are. And having thus got rid of the foolishness of the body, we shall be pure and hold converse with the pure, and shall in our own selves have complete knowledge of the Incorruptible which is, I take it, no other than the very truth.

  Socrates

  War, Fighting, Self

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• O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, meddling, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to Thy servant. Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own sins and not to judge my brother; for Thou art blessed unto ages of ages. Amen.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Brother, Art, Kings

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• Wisdom is the aristic craving for extraordinary insights, for incandescent revelations that have the power to burst through banausic and doulic ordinariness: wisdom is the lust to be transfigured, transvaluated.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Words Of Wisdom, Revelations

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• God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. "I am not, but Thou art; the old man is all gone, only Thou remainest." "I am Thou." Blame none; if evil comes, know the Lord is playing with you and be exceeding glad.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Giving Up, Anger

  Swami Vivekananda, (2013). “Inspired Talks by Swami Vivekananda”, p.39, Read Books Ltd

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• Be humble in this life, that God may raise you up in the next. Be truly moderate and do not punish or condemn anyone immoderately. Be gentle so that you may never oppose justice. Be honorable so that you may never voluntarily bring disgrace upon anyone. Be chaste so that you may avoid all the foulness of lust like the pangs of death.

  Stephen I of Hungary

  Humble, Justice, Catholic

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• Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting everything on the smorgasbord to have life-altering encounters. They have a terror of closing off options. They have been inculcated with a lust for prestige and a fear of doing things that may put their status at risk.

  David Brooks

  Jumping, Race, Risk

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• Future arises out of your misery, not out of your celebration. A really celebrating person has no future; he lives this moment, he lives it totally. Out of that total living arises the next moment, but it is not out of any lust. Of course, when out of celebration the next moment arises, it has more capacity to bless you. When out of celebration the future arises, it goes on becoming more and more rich. And a moment comes when the moment is so total, so whole, that time completely disappears.

  Rajneesh

  Goes On, Next, Becoming

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• Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.

  Sarah Churchwell

  Confused, Passion, Frustration

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• If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be consumed for their sensual gratification; and thus they will destroy in their lust for enjoyment the property of future generations, of their own contemporaries, and indeed their very own capital.

  Russell Kirk

  Men, Sensual, Generations

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.44, Regnery Publishing

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

  Frank Scoblete

  Desire, Machines, Roulette

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• Disharmony prevails when you confuse
  Lust with LOVE, while the distance
  between the two is endless!

  Rumi

  Distance, Two, Endless

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• The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

  Plato

  Pain, Anger, Envy

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