quotations about lust
Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
MARQUIS DE SADE
attributed, Memorable Quotations: French Writers of the Past
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE
attributed, Lust: A Dictionary for the Insatiable
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
Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.
ST. AUGUSTINE
attributed, Lust: A Dictionary for the Insatiable
I know the very difference that lies
'Twixt hallowed love and base, unholy lust;
I know the one is as a golden spur,
Urging the spirit to all noble aims;
The other but a foul and miry pit,
O'erthrowing it in the midst of its career;
I know the one is as a living spring
Of virtuous thoughts, true dealings, and brave deeds--
Nobler than glory, and more sweet than pleasure--
Richer than wealth, begetter of more excellence
Than aught that from this earth corrupt takes birth,
Second alone in the fair fruit it bears
To the unmixed ore of true devotion:
I know that lust is all of this, spelt backwards;
Fouler than shame, and bitterer than sorrow,
More loathly than most abject penury--
Nor hath it fruit or bearing to requite it,
Save sick satiety and good men's scorn.
FANNY KEMBLE
The Star of Seville: A Drama in Five Acts
Wickedness is nourished by lust.
ARISTOTLE
attributed, Day's Collacon
A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit,
Confounded in that Babel of the pit;
Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild,
Sick lust of souls, and an abortive child;
Born between whores and fops, by lewd compacts,
Before the play, or else between the acts;
Nor wonder, if from such polluted minds
Should spring such short and transitory kinds.
JONATHAN SWIFT
"To Mr. Congreve", The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous poems
Lust is the cause of generation.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life