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Quotes About Lust

What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
~ Marquis de Sade
Sinful attempts to control may come from a lust for power or from unsuccessful attempts to correct problem situations. Underneath sinful attempts to control or manipulate is the deadliest sin of all: pride. It is pride that puts self, self's interests, desires, plans, and ideas first. It is often the self-righteous pride of thinking that self knows what is best.
~ Unknown
Thus the fleshly use of sex is forbidden, because it is a disorderly lust. Where, however, sex is associated with you by marriage, then the flesh should be used, and you render to the divine Law, that is, to love what is demanded.
~ Martin Luther
They are hungering for "a deep sexual experience." They'll sleep with anybody who wears braids or a choker. I
~ Mary Brave Bird
The three primary motivators for murder are money, sex, and revenge.
~ Mary Burton
I love you too much to spoil the immortality of a feeling with fleeting lust.
~ Unknown
Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.
~ Mason Cooley
Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you.
~ Unknown
Love is the rose. Lust is the thorn.
~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.
~ Germaine Greer
Love in young men for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and its accomplishment is the end
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.
~ Alicia Barnhart
We either marry out of LOVE or out of LUST. But only one of them stays for better and for worse.
~ Terry Mark
Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.
~ Judith Viorst
I Don't Know whether lust is a human coarseness or a human fineness: I don't know why death holds a so sweet lure since it would take away my Body: I don't know that I wouldn't deny my Christ, if I had one, three times before a given cockcrow: I don't know on the other hand that I would: I don't know whether honor is a reality in human beings or a pose: I don't know that I mayn't be able to think with my Body when it is in its coffin.
~ Mary MacLane
Alexander could transmit imagination as some other could transmit lust.
~ Mary Renault
You flesh bodies are so obsessed with goodness, yet no other form of life on earth is capable of such cruelty. You need only convince yourselves your transgressions serve some 'purpose.' Even if it is only greed, or lust, or the raw desire for power that drives you. You will spill the blood of your kinsmen, lay waste to the earth itself, wreak havoc, and cause unspeakable suffering---any and all sins are justified, as long as they are a means to your precous, righteous 'purpose'.
~ Unknown
Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.
~ Mason Cooley
Love is blind, but lust has many eyes.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
People always desire that which they cannot have.
~ Unknown
But what happened in Heaven? What did you do there? After a while, didn't you crave flaws? Love and lust and misunderstandings, and maybe even a little violence to liven things up? Didn't light need shade? Didn't it?
~ Matt Haig
An increased sexual imagination. (Fear of death often seems to counterbalance itself with thoughts of sex.)
~ Matt Haig
The better we can accommodate ourselves to plain things, and the less we indulge ourselves with those artificial delights which have been invented to gratify men's pride and luxury, the nearer we approach to a state of innocency. Nature is content with a little and that which is most natural, grace with less, but lust with nothing. Matthew 1:8-15
~ Matthew Henry
She knew he would like taking it off; he tended to prefer her dresses on the floor rather than on her person.
~ Unknown