Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. – John Webster
The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang. – John Updike
Though lust do masque in ne’er so strange disguise she’s oft found witty, but is never wise. – John Webster
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. – Joseph Addison
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. – Abu Bakr
Writing is like a ‘lust,’ or like ‘scratching when you itch.’ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out. – C. S. Lewis
Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs… gangsters who lust after fortunes and power. – Cindy Sheehan
Anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. – The Bible Matthew 5:28
I lust after iPods or Mini Coopers not because they’re unique, but because they’ve been so artfully made that I couldn’t imagine doing it better myself. – Clive Thompson
You’re never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, even though I know that I shouldn’t. But I’d give just about anything to be able to do it again. To see the horizon again from the back of a dog team would be wonderful. – Gary Paulsen
Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance. – Donald Ray Pollock
You can’t see fear or lust; you can’t photograph someone’s anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations. – Duane Michals
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. – Emma Orczy
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization. – Mercy Otis Warren
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love. – Mortimer Adler
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure. – Mortimer Adler
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth. – Pliny the Elder
My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value. – Lance Loud
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom. – Mahatma Gandhi
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
It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities. – Johann Arndt
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason. – Michel de Montaigne
Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts. – The Bible Saint Peter , 2 Peter 3:3
