Lust
Lust is an intense desire or craving. It can take many forms, such as the lust for knowledge, the lust for sex or the lust for power.
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Quotes[edit]
- Of woman's unnatural, insatiable lust, what country, what village doth not complain?
- Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part. 3. Sec. 2.
- Neither do thou lust after that tawney weed tobacco.
- Ben Jonson, Bartholomew Fair (1614), Act II, scene vi.
- They are only safe
That know to soothe the prince's appetite,
And serve his lusts.- Philip Massinger, The Roman Actor (1626), Act I, scene i.
- Lust is an arrogant and haughty beast and far from subtle.
- Mervyn Peake, Titus Alone (1959), Chapter 42.
- Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes, for the prostitute reduces you to a loaf of bread, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
- Proverbs 6:25-26 (NIV)
- Love is more cruel than lust.
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dolores (1866), stanza 20.
- Ring out the narrowing lust of gold.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850), Canto CVI, stanza 7.
- Quid non mortalia pectora cogis,
Auri sacra fames?- Fell lust of gold! abhorred, accurst!
What will not men to slake such thirst? - Virgil, Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book III, lines 56-57 (translated by John Conington).
- Fell lust of gold! abhorred, accurst!
- Lust carries her sharp whip
At her own girdle.- John Webster, The White Devil (1612), Act II, scene i.
- Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust,
Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust.- John Webster, Duchess of Malfi (1623), Act V, scene v.
- Natural freedoms are but just:
There's something generous in mere lust.- John Wilmot, A Ramble in St. James' Park (1672).
- "Lust is the offspring of a thousand sighs,
- "Intrigue, deception, and as many lies;
- "A strange compound of hidden, plotting ill,
- "To fire with rage, to torture, or to kill"
- John Lyon -Lust (1853)
The Bible[edit]
- Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
- Matthew 5:27-28 (KJV).
- Make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
- Romans 13:14 (KJV).
- Silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts.
- 2 Timothy 3:6 (KJV).
- Abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.
- 1 Peter 2:11 (KJV).
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