L Quotes
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“Lust is about satisfaction. Love is about sacrificing, serving, surrendering, sharing, supporting, and even suffering for others. Most love songs are actually lust songs.”
“Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.”
“Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of man, and effeminateth the strength of the heroic mind.”
Source: Poetical Works: And, Quarles' Emblems
“Lust is as it were desire and desire, will which extends beyond the natural will, passionate, not governed by the law and moderation. There are thus many forms of lust, like the many forms of sin ... Lust does not approach the soul in the form of a warlike enemy, but in the form of a friend or a pleasant servant. It suggests some sort of pleasure or illusory good. But this is only a trick by which the malicious angler strives to lead astray and catch the poor soul. Remember this when you are tempted by lust.”
“Lust is easy. Love is hard. Life is most important.”
“Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.”
“Lust is love’s parasite
whispering hunger through silk”
“Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.”
Source: The Power and the Glory
“Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.”
“Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.”
“Lust is the base of most physical ills, and like a tapeworm in the system, it feeds on our best energies and vitality.”
“Lust is the cause of generation
Appetite is the support of life
Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and
Fraud the preservation of its instruments.”
Source: Notebooks
“Lust is the cause of generation.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.”
Source: Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.
“Lust is the devil's counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust.”
Source: D. L. Moody on the Ten Commandments
“Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.”
“Lust is the purest emotion. If Love is the effect, then lust is the cause. Love might be intangible but lust is omnipreseent, evergrowing. Evergrowing. Always! Forever!!”
Source: CRÈME
“Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.”
Source: Pensées
“Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.”
“Lust is weak desire. A woman without a good head on her shoulders is nothing but a piece of meat.”
“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.”
“Lust likes to rush, while love hates to wait.”
“Lust makes you insane, love gives you sanity.”
“Lust may be in the heart, though it be not seen by others; as guests may be in the house, though they look not out at the windows.”
“Lust may turn a man into a rapist, but religion pushes him into a murder.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“Lust of life digs out hidden qualities and subdued yearnings from the silence of our inner self. If we give way to the desire of looking above and beyond the limit of the horizon, we can perceive a fabulous range of unsuspected privileges unfolding in front of our eyes. ("Steps in the unknown")”
“Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.”
“Lust should be stifled, for it cannot lead to truth.”
“Lust starts with chemistry. Love starts with trust and respect.”
Source: If I Fail
“Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.”
“Lust tastes like tequila and love tastes like whiskey. Love burns for longer and warms you up on the inside and sometimes it makes you do stupid things. Tequila makes you wasted.”
“Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.”
Source: How the Dead Live
“Lust was edging confusion for the lead. Good sense had fallen far behind.”
Source: Drunk on You
“Lust was no surprise. Present a man who'd not known a woman in a while with the sight of a naked one, and there was no power on earth that could restrain his cock from rising.
But the tenderness in his chest nearly knocked him down. He longed to hold her, to whisper endearments, to kiss away her fears and offer her the protection of his body as well as its need.
"Elspeth," he said reverently, as if her name were a prayer.
That broke the spell. She covered herself, one arm across her breasts, the other hand protectively splayed between her legs.
He continued to look at her, drinking in her exposed skin, all rosy and fresh. It would be like silk under his touch. His hands would know every inch of her.
She snatched up the remains of the velvet skirt and held it before her, but her neat calves and ankles were still bare to his gaze.
"How long have you been there?" she demanded.
"Long enough.”
Source: Sins of the Highlander
“Lust was not love, it was not loyalty, and it was not long lasting.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“Lust weakens both body and mind.”
“Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.”
“Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.”
“Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment - These are all paths to hell.”
“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."”
Source: The CEO of the Sofa
“Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.”
“Lust," she said. "Lust is a deadly sin." "And spanking." "I think that falls under lust." "I think it should have its own category." said Jace”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“Lust-bred diseases rot thee.”
Source: The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne: (A Modern Library E-Book)
“Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties?”
“Lustful Desire (although 'twere rather fit To some brute creature to attribute it) Shall be presented in the second place, Because it shrouds a vile deformed face Beneath love's vizard, and assumes that name, Hiding its own fault with the other's blame.”
Source: Poems ...
“Lustful people are often very generous. Addicts often have a tender heart. Bad things about you often surround the best thing about you just as thorns surround a rose.”
“lustful to the point of sullen.”
Source: Virgin
“Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.”
“Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others.”
“Luta contra a gravidade e voa para longe. Alcançar novos horizontes e expande-se”
Source: A Grande Pérola da Sabedoria