Lust is the cause of generation.
The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.
The student ends up lusting after time with the teacher, hanging on her every word, and forgetting that this is about him or her, the student, not the teacher.
Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
Those who wish to attain God and progress in religious devotion, should particularly guard themselves against the snares of lust and wealth. Otherwise they can never attain perfection.
The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery. So you can't masturbate without lust.
Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could take from it, by the intense and amusing need they had merely to touch it, to reach out urgently and press it, squeeze it, pinch it, rub it. She did not understand Yossarian's lust; but she was willing to take is word for it.
It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.
If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.
We got to mediate our greedy levels, Cause the lust of currency can have us sleepin with the devil.
Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.
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.
The thing I never understood about love is that it can't be quelled, like lust can. With love, if you follow its call, if you give in to it, it just gets worse. The more you have, the deeper you go, the more you need.
Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining.
Let, then, the word be preached, and the sins of men will be rebuked, lust will be restrained, and some oppositions will be made against sin, though that be not the effect aimed at.
What is cheaper than lust or of less value than alchemy or aphrodisiacs?
Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it?
It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.
Love is the great conqueror of lust.