Lust Quotes - Page 30

• All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Dream, Writing, Sadness

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

  Ava Gardner

  Believe, Simple, Pity

  Ava Gardner, Peter Evans (2013). “Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• When you are in relationship with people, in a thousand and one ways you are provoked, challenged, seduced. Again and again you come to know your pitfalls, your limitations, your anger, your lust, your possessiveness, your jealousy, your sadness, your happiness all moods come and go, you are constantly in a turmoil. But this is the only way to know who you are.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Sadness, People

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• We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need.

  David Gemmell

  Dream, Believe, Long

  "Quest for Lost Heroes". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 12, 1990.

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• The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports.

  Piet Pieterszoon Hein

  Sports, Sex, Healthy

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

  Brad Meltzer

  Pockets, Underwear, Wipe

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• Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.

  Pope Pius II

  Men, Age, Old Age

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• As pills that are outwardly fair, gilt, and rolled in sugar, but within are full of bitterness, even so lustful pleasure is no sooner hatched but remorse is at hand, ready to supplant her.

  Daniel Cawdry

  Hands, Pills, Sugar

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• 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

  Names, Desire, Faces

  George Wither (1839). “Poems ...”, p.21

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• A teleology directed to material ends has been substituted for the lust for adventure, variety, and play.

  John Carroll

  Adventure, Play, Ends

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.119, Taylor & Francis

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• One part of love is innocence One part of love is guilt One part the milk that in a sense Is soured as soon as spilt One part of love is sentiment One part of love is lust One part is the presentiment Of our return to dust

  Clive Barker

  Love, Dust, Guilt

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Aug 16, 2013

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• Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.

  Bernie Mac

  Passion, Years, Laughing

  Interview, www.ign.com. March 27, 2003.

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• Suppress prostitution, and capricious lusts will overthrow society.

  Saint Augustine

  Atheism, Capricious, Prostitution

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• Any who pretend to assume to engage in plural marriage in this day, when the one holding the keys has withdrawn the power by which they are performed, are guilty of gross wickedness. Thy are living in adultery, have already sold their souls to Satan, and (whether their acts are based on ignorance or lust or both) they will be damned in eternity.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Ignorance, Keys, Soul

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• I think I can speak on behalf of women and say that every woman wants a man who just loves them and lusts after them.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Men, Thinking, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• A lot of time we build on lust that becomes very strong. Yet, when that lust wears off we think that love is running out, but really it's the lust that had an expiration date. We have to know what real love is and if we're really in-love.

  Tony Gaskins

  Running, Strong, Real

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• Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us].

  Baruch Spinoza

  Law, Broken, Laughing

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• We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers, their mothers, and their brothers, to satisfy the brutal lusts of savage men. If there be a god, I pray him to write in his book, opposite my name, that I denied this lie for him.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.435, Library of Alexandria

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• Here is how you know if it is love or lust. Push them in front of a bus. If you jump in the way and save them it is love.

  Teresa Mummert

  Way, Bus, Knows

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• Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.

  Eloisa James

  Persons, Felt

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• Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

  Pliny the Elder

  Believe, Men, Obscure

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• If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Eye, Heart, Hands

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1857). “The Crock of Gold, and Other Tales”, p.106

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• Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Pride, Idols

  Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.58

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• The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

  Rose Macaulay

  Impulse, Primitive, Humans

  Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

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• Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousy, it is the sacrificial altar of health, it is the defiler of the soul, it is the avenue of lust and it is the curse of every town in America.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Pride, America, Dancing

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