Lust Quotes - Page 36

• Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.

  Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

  Excess, Human Nature, Shame

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• Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance only the fiction by means of which the tender-minded negotiate their lust?

  Trevanian

  Passion, Mean, Men

  Trevanian (2005). “The Summer of Katya: A Novel”, p.9, Crown

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• A man lusts to become a god... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?

  David Zindell

  Men, World, Murder

  "The Broken God". Book by David Zindell, 1992.

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• Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness.

  Thomas Boston

  Evil, Grace, Band

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• I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Race, Trying

  Mark Twain (1969). “Mark Twain's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers, 1893-1909”, p.78, Univ of California Press

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• As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

  Robert Breault

  Funny, Humorous, Pride

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• Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Humble, Fire

  "Why Do Christians Fast? Three Reasons Explained by St. Thomas Aquinas" by Gretchen Filz, www.catholiccompany.com. March 23, 2017.

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• To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about our failure to be or do perfectly as He wills is to reject the grace of God and to lead people to lust after self-help and self-improvemen t in a way that, to call a spade a spade, is godless.

  Graeme Goldsworthy

  Self, People, Grace

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• The law no passion can disturb. 'Tis void of desire and fear, lust and anger. 'Tis mens sine affectu, written reason, retaining some measure of the divine perfection. It does not enjoin that which pleases a weak, frail man, but, without any regard to persons, commands that which is good and punishes evil in all, whether rich or poor, high or low.

  John Adams

  Passion, Men, Law

  John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.114

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• Technology is lust removed from nature.

  Don DeLillo

  Technology

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.317, Pan Macmillan

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• Because no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors

  Alejandra Pizarnik

  Mirrors, Blood, Earth

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• On one hand the eternal attraction of man towards femininity (cf. Gn. 2:23) frees in him-or perhaps it should free-a gamut of spiritual-corporal desires of an especially personal and "sharing" nature (cf. analysis of the "beginning"), to which a proportionate pyramid of values corresponds. On the other hand, "lust" limits this gamut, obscuring the pyramid of values that marks the perennial attraction of male and female.

  Pope John Paul II

  Spiritual, Men, Hands

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• ...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object, the way you'd stare at an animal. She pretended not to notice. To remind them she was a person was too much effort. Objects bore no guilt.

  Janet Fitch

  Animal, Men, Effort

  Janet Fitch (2013). “Paint It Black”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.

  Graham Greene

  People, Sorrow, Emotion

  Graham Greene (1998). “The Tenth Man”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• Unfortunately people sometimes suppress their lust. And it's not only sex. It could be lusting for anything really, anything that's supposedly very bad for you but can be good for you, too.

  Sune Rose Wagner

  Sex, People, Sometimes

  "The Raveonettes". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. February 5, 2008.

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• Even when I can play Europe's most precious keyboard, to have to listen to people who don't understand, or do not want to understand, and who are incapable of grasping my intent, whatever I play, does surely forfeit my lust for playing at all.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Europe, Play, People

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• There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, Gambling, Blood

  Harry S. Truman, Robert H. Ferrell (1997). “Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman”, p.177, University of Missouri Press

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• The lust for affluence in contemporary society has become psychotic; it has completely lost touch with reality.

  Richard J. Foster

  Reality, Affluence, Psychotic

  Richard J. Foster (2010). “Freedom of Simplicity: Revised Edition: Finding Harmony in a Complex World”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Young man, if God gives me four years more to rule this country, I believe it will become what it ought to be-what its Divine Author intended it to be-no longer one vast plantation for breeding human beings for the purpose of lust and bondage. But it will become a new Valley of Jehoshaphat, where all the nations of the earth will assemble together under one flag, worshipping a common God, and they will celebrate the resurrection of human freedom.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Believe, Men

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• ...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sweet, Heart, Wine

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• But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to bea sect or scion.... It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Humanity, Cynicism

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.284

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• That's America for you - a red herring culture, always scared of the wrong things. The fact is, there are a lot of creepy middle-aged men out there lusting for your kids. They work for MTV, the pharmaceutical industry, McDonald's, Marlboro and K Street.

  Bill Maher

  Kids, Men, Mcdonalds

  "Real Time with Bill Maher",

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• Our need to knock celebrities is...Twisted: it's deep in the mid-brain below the survival instinct. That lust to see a downfall. It's animalistic.

  Peaches Geldof

  Brain, Survival, Needs

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• The feelings that we equate with love-feeling sick, feeling insecure, not eating-that's just lust getting in the way. It's your ego saying, 'I want to get laid' and 'I hope she likes me more than I like her.' Love is something that should be there in 20 years' time.

  Simon Cowell

  Insecure, Love Is, Years

  "He Said, She Said: Celebs on Love". www.elle.com. February 13, 2012.

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• Desire happiness, aspire to gratitude, long for health, crave compassion, seek satisfaction, lust after God, however & whatever you perceive God to be, want to love yourself, others & everything around you more and more each day

  Peter McWilliams

  Gratitude, Love You, Compassion

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