Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.
Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.
Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day
I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding, such, finally, their lust after error, that they will not be content with the rule of faith delivered once and for all from antiquity, but must daily seek after something new, and even newer still, and are always longing to add something to religion, or to change it, or to subtract from it!
He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. "The wait will be fun, but it's not going to be easy. "
Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.
Pornography is essentially reductive, an exercise in the nothing-but mode, a depersonalizing of the human beings involved, a showing-up of human lust as nothing but an affair of the genitals.
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger. , Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust. ]
Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony, or, as we call them these days, "getting in touch with your sexuality," "raising your self-esteem," "relaxation therapy," and "being a recovered bulimic. "
Love forgives the lover even his lust.
If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life.
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.
The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.
Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.
I've been feeling everything. From hate to love. From love to lust. From lust to truth. I guess that's how I know you.