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Quotes About Lust

I've been in love often enough to be completely exhausted by it, and not to know what it means any more. When you look back afterwards, you can always find another way of putting it. You say, I was obsessed, it was really lust, I was fooling myself, because after you've recovered from being in love, you always decide that that wasn't what it was.
~ Louis de Bernieres
Love delayed is lust augmented.
~ Louis de Bernieres
What's this? Bacon and tangerines. We are going to have an orgy.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
Nestes tempos em que os corpos se escondem, a volúpia é um deleite sensual cuja intensidade está ligada ao mistério do sexo; e, por ser invisível, o corpo inspira aos pecadores devaneios sexuais empolgantes, que tornam irresistivelmente sensuais os colos e os braços nus das mulheres, fazem promissores e instigantes os olhos, as bocas rubras.
~ Rubem Fonseca
Forgive me, it's hard to control myself around such beauties.- Miroku
~ Rumiko Takahashi
But since when has a lust-intoxicated man thought about the feelings of others?
~ S.L. Bhyrappa
they came in search of the hot stuff, just like any man calling on a tart.
~ Salman Rushdie
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
~ Erich Fromm
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
~ Marquis de Sade
Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of man, and effeminateth the strength of the heroic mind.
~ Francis Quarles
Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch, She's good for the moment, but she's never enough
~ Jay-Z
Lust was a story I knew. There were many women I took to bed for the night. I yearned for them in the moment, but in the morning, any lover I'd had was already claimed by the past, even if she was still calling my name.
~ Alice Hoffman
Doesn't everyone want what they cannot have?
~ Alice Hoffman
The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
~ Alice Munro
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. —JOHN WEBSTER Grant
~ ALLISON BRENNAN
Hadn't I been humiliated when I was looking longingly at Roger Federer's twin on the Tube and he offered me his seat? Our bodies continue to make fools of us as we age. Lust doesn't die to spare the sensitivities of the grossed-out young who prefer not to think of wrinkly couplings, and - this is really cruel - carnal feelings are among the very last to checkout.
~ Allison Pearson
The sudden acquisition of power does not go to the head, but to the groin. In some, it promotes lust; in others, supplants it. Those on whom its effect is purely cerebral may indeed be counted as fortunate.
~ Amanda Craig
Time was he'd reckoned himself a quick thinker but the only thing moving fast right then was his cock.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Heaven was a lovely, unspoiled Earth-like world; what Earth might have been like if men had treated her with compassion instead of lust.
~ Joe Haldeman
The Devil and woman have been allies against God from the beginning, ever since Satan first came to the first man in the form of a snake and whispered to Adam that true happiness was not to be found in prayer but in Eve's cunt.
~ Joe Hill
Why don't you hit Ig?" Terry whispered. "He's the one checking out little redheads. Thinking lustful thoughts. He's coveting. Look at him. You can see it on his face. Look at that coveting expression." "Covetous," Derrick said.
~ Joe Hill
If books were girls, and reading was s-ss-ssss—fucking, this would be the biggest whorehouse in the county and I'd be the most ruthless pimp you ever met.
~ Joe Hill
I want something from her, but I don't know what it is. I guess that means sex.
~ Joey Comeau
From the first time Thomas has seen him, he hadn't known who or what Marcus was, just that he wanted him. Wanted to be his. And the fact Thomas has thought of it that way should have given him a clue to the hidden craving in his own makeup. An unexpected sexual preference. Preference. There was a grimly amusing word. As if any need this elemental was a choice.
~ Joey W. Hill