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Quotes About Lust

The city was new again, and newly dangerous, and I would walk the streets quickly, eyes averted from those of passersby, like a spy in the employ of lust and happiness, carrying the secret deep within me but always on the tip of my tongue.
~ Michael Chabon
I admit it - there was a streak of sadism in my lusts. There was the taint of vanity. I choose ordinary men who would not refuse; who would feel lucky to have me. I did not thrill to the sight of their flesh - which was either bulky or scrawny but always abashed and grateful - so much as I did to the fact of their capture.
~ Michael Cunningham
The Indian engineers had the lust for the kill that Clark loved. They were ferociously, recklessly competitive.
~ Michael Lewis
Oh, my beauty! Oh, my love. Soon your loins shall live--and throb to my pounding dork! Ah! Ah!
~ Michael Moorcock
I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried to welcome me, but my soul drew back, guilty of lust and sin.
~ Madonna Ciccone
You can't love someone just by looking at them. That is lust. Not saying love can't come fast, but it doesn't come first.
~ Teresa Mummert
People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.
~ Simon Cowell
Not every song has to be about love and tenderness, sometimes you have those strictly physical feelings for somebody and it's okay to have those feelings.
~ Adam Levine
...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity.
~ Alan Watts
There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because those who truly love do not desire power.
~ Alison Croggon
Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds.
~ Narayanananda Swami.
It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
~ William Penn
Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love.
~ Greta Scacchi
Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.
~ Lynda Obst
I'm gonna make love to you like fifteen men.
~ Rod Stewart
Adam lay perfectly still, little groans escaping from his lips. I looked at the bow, looked at my hands, looked at Adam's face and felt this surge of love, lust, and an unfamiliar feeling of power.
~ Gayle Forman
One day scientists will more fully understand the chemistry and neuro-circuitry that differentiates love from lust. I couldn't begin to explain the mechanics, but I know that they feel differently.
~ Jim Goad
I lost the love of heaven above I spurned the lust of earth below I felt the sweets of fancied love And hell itself my only foe.
~ John Clare
She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling lust, from feeling anything at all.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
An unforgettable tale of love, lust, faith, betrayal, and redemption. A powerful, mesmerizing suspense novel-a tour de force!
~ Judith Kelman
I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again.
~ Michelle Hodkin
Thus knowing oneself to be transcendental to material senses, mind and intelligence, one should control the lower self by the higher self and thus-by spiritual strength-conquer this insatiable enemy known as lust.
~ Bhagavad Gita
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?
~ Blaise Pascal