(138 quotes found)
“Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.”
John Lahr
“Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed”
Bhagavad Gita
“Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of pestilential winds, Taints the sweet bloom of nature's fairest forms”
John Milton
“I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.”
Jimmy Carter
“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
“I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.”
Aleister Crowley
“The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports”
Piet Hein
“Beauty's sister is vanity, and its daughter lust.”
Proverb
“Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
“The pride of the peacock is the glory of God./ The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. / The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. / The nakedness of woman is the work of God.”
William Blake
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