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Quotes About Lust

I don't think we can ever learn much from ultra-sensitive, shifty faces, skilled in disguise, that hide themselves in lust, as beasts hide to die.
~ bernanos georges iii
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
~ bible quotes vi
Caligula and the mouth of Marilyn Monroe," in reference
~ Bill O'Reilly
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
~ Saint Augustine
The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.
~ Patti Smith
What's big, thick, makes the earth move, and wants to have its way with you? I don't know, but can you introduce me?
~ Gregory Maguire
First he anointed her eyes, once so covetous of all earthly luxuries; then her nostrils, so gluttonous of caressing breezes and amorous scents; then her mouth, so prompt to lie, so defiant in pride, so loud in lust; then her hands that had thrilled to voluptuous contacts; and finally the soles of her feet, once so swift when she had hastened to slake her desires, and now never to walk again.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.
~ H.L. Mencken
denn dann sei die Menschheit wie die Großen Alten geworden; frei und ungezähmt und jenseits von Gut und Böse, und jedes Gesetz und jede Moral sei zur Seite gefegt, und alle Menschen würden schreien und töten und sich in Lust ergehen.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
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. This is a Republic. The greatest in the history of the world. I want this country to continue as a Republic.
~ H.W. Brands
The truth is,everything we really desire is either forbidden,immoral or unhealthy, and if you're lucky, all three at once.
~ Hanif Kureishi
Who doesn't love cock?
~ Hanif Kureishi
Bridget was risking a lot to marry him. She was too quick-witted not to know that. Cathal was not only flattered by that; he felt hopeful. For Bridget to do this had to mean that she cared for him, felt more than lust for him. There was a good chance that the seed of affection had already taken root in her heart. Cathal prayed he had the skill to nurture it well and make it grow. Bridget
~ Hannah Howell
Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex.
~ Al Goldstein
Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time.
~ Martin Amis
Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.
~ John Milton
You always want what you cant have
~ Sherry Argov
He was a god above her, powerful, beautiful, larger than life. The light brought out the latent gold of his hair. The shadows contoured the perfect form of his body. Light and shadows converged in his eyes, bright lust, dark anger, and something else. Something else entirely. She recognized it because she'd seen it in the mirror so many times: a bleak, austere loneliness.
~ Sherry Thomas
Fuck, I wanted her. Even knowing what she thought of me, I wanted her. In all my life, I'd never wanted anything, not really.
~ Shiloh Walker
He imagined that the people here would never die: they would simply evaporate into the carnal smoke of the music, their loins wrapped around each other, self and sorrow abandoned to the roar of lust.
~ Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
Broadminded though we take ourselves to be, lust gets a bad press. It is the fly in the ointment, the black sheep of the family, the ill- bred, trashy cousin of upstanding members like love and friendship.
~ Simon Blackburn
I believe in lust at first sight.And attraction.But not love.
~ Simone Elkeles
I've never seen anythin' sexier in my life, and she's not even naked yet.
~ Simone Elkeles
We fall in love in favor of sexual urges.
~ Sipho P Nkosi