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Quotes About Lust

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.
~ Peter Weiss
Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the mania of lust.
~ Philip Roth
Forse è tutto ciò che sono realmente: un leccatore di figa, una bocca schiava del buco femminile. Lecca! E così sia! Forse la soluzione più saggia per me è vivere a quattro zampe! Strisciare attraverso la vita ingozzandomi di passera, lasciando che a raddrizzare i torti e a fare i padri di famiglia siano le creature erette!
~ Philip Roth
Tits and cunts and legs and lips and mouths and tongues and assholes! How can I give up what I have never even had, for a girl, who delicious and provocative as once she may have been, will inevitably grow as familiar to me as a loaf of bread?
~ Philip Roth
Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the manias of lust.
~ Philip Roth
Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What redeems you is that in every man and woman there is a seed that can grow to encompass love, joy and compassion. But this seed is never allowed to prosper in fertile ground. It struggles for life among the rocks of your human soul.
~ David Gemmell
Only a fool loves war," said Calvar, "or a man who has never seen it. The trouble is that the survivors forget about the horrors and remember only the battle lust. They pass on that memory, and other men hunger for it.
~ David Gemmell
injustice is not caused by an abstraction called "society," as we on the left had maintained. Nor was injustice caused by oppressive races and genders, or solely by our political enemies. Injustice is the result of human selfishness, deceitfulness, malice, envy, greed, and lust. Injustice is the inevitable consequence of our free will as human beings. "Society" is not the cause of injustice. Society is merely a reflection of who we are.
~ David Horowitz
Betrayal. Lust. Secrecy. Devotion. I think we do these things to feel more alive. When the truth is that alive is alive -- you can feel it in anything, if you give it a chance.
~ David Levithan
Chaste with a chance of inveterate lust.
~ David Levithan
You know what it's like to look at someone and realize they're hungry for you?
~ David Levithan
We are all prisoners inside the barbed wire of attachment, with sentries of desire and fear guarding us from our freedom. Luxury, comfort, lust for life, vanities are the Detaining Powers of the spirit of every man. - Alastair Cram
~ Unknown
We don't fall in love, we fall in lust. We ascend to love.
~ Dean Cavanagh
Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.
~ Dean Koontz
Era el cuerpo de mujer que invitaba al hombre a los círculos inferiores del infierno.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Era el cuerpo de mujer lo que arrastraba al hombre a los círculos inferiores del infierno.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
How much longer on the divan? Why does sex have to mean everything? OK, it can mean something, but why everything? Why do thirty years have to go down the toilet because I wanted to touch somebody else? Am I missing something? Is this what it comes down to? Why does the sex have to mean everything?
~ Zadie Smith
Nothing is more interesting in a novel or a play than an affair.
~ Howard Jacobson
I see Freud as energized by three motivations: pleasure in classifying, lust for problem solving, passion for system building.
~ Unknown
am forever reminded of the eight unavoidable sufferings: birth, old age, pain, one's own death, the death of a loved one, evil people, frustrated desire and lust.
~ Unknown
Negro, and also that which was used to lead him from the jail, were eagerly sought by relic hunters. They almost fought for a chance to cut off a piece of rope, and in an incredibly short time both ropes had disappeared and were scattered in the pockets of the crowd in sections of from an inch to six inches long. Others of the relic hunters remained until the ashes cooled to obtain such ghastly relics as the teeth, nails, and bits of charred skin of the immolated victim of his own lust.
~ Unknown
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.
~ Colleen Coble
He wanted her. Her. Nothing could take that away from her. Ever. He wanted her, not the status he thought her purloined name could bring him
~ Connie Brockway
Madam, I could teach lessons in hell on the subject of 'want.'
~ Connie Brockway