quotations about lust
Lust is not the real issue. It is a branch, along with a myriad of others, which receives its nourishment from roots that go deep into apathy, idleness, and unbelief. Addressing only lust is just trimming branches. I will continue to struggle with lust if I spend all my time focusing on only beating lust, so to speak.
ABBIE SMITH
Can You Keep Your Faith in College?
The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt.
PLATO
Phaedo
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
Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
MARQUIS DE SADE
attributed, Memorable Quotations: French Writers of the Past
Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.
ST. AUGUSTINE
attributed, Lust: A Dictionary for the Insatiable
Lust is the cause of generation.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life
Sodom and Madonna-ism are two halves of the same movement, the mere tick-tack of lust and asceticism, pietism and pornography.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Introductions and Reviews
Wickedness is nourished by lust.
ARISTOTLE
attributed, Day's Collacon