quotations about lust
A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit,
Confounded in that Babel of the pit;
Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild,
Sick lust of souls, and an abortive child;
Born between whores and fops, by lewd compacts,
Before the play, or else between the acts;
Nor wonder, if from such polluted minds
Should spring such short and transitory kinds.
JONATHAN SWIFT
"To Mr. Congreve", The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous poems
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
Comus: A Masque
Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
MARQUIS DE SADE
attributed, Memorable Quotations: French Writers of the Past
Lust is the cause of generation.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life
It is the grand battle of life, to teach lust the limits of divine law, to break it into the taste of bread of heaven, and make it understand that man doth not live by bread alone, but by every word that cometh out of the mouth of God.
J. B. BROWN
attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical
But in the morning Lust is always furtive. It dresses as mechanically as it undressed and heads straight for the door, to return to its own solitude. Like all the sins, it also makes us solitary. It is self-abdication at the very core of one's own being, a surrender of our need and ability to give and receive. Lust does not come with open hands, certainly not with an open heart. It comes only with open legs.
HENRY FAIRLIE
The Seven Deadly Sins of Today
Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.
ST. AUGUSTINE
attributed, Lust: A Dictionary for the Insatiable
Wickedness is nourished by lust.
ARISTOTLE
attributed, Day's Collacon