25 More Quotes About Lust

Because there’s always something to say about wanton desire

Lust has its place in our lives, there’s no doubt about that. But what exactly is that place? And what should it be? These quotes are some ideas about lust and what it means to people.

1. “Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.” -Mason Cooley

2. “Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.” -Marquis de Sade

3. “That line between love and lust was thin as a whisper.” -Julia Karr

4. “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.” -Judith Viorst

5. “Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.” -C.S. Lewis

6. “I have always been full of lust — as I am now — but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.” -Susan Sontag

7. “Oh, I know that she’s disgusted, cause she’s feeling so abused. She gets tired of the lust, but it’s so hard to refuse.” -Elvis Costello

8. “Lust is the cause of generation.” -Leonardo da Vinci

9. “I don’t define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a desire to eat cake, a desire to feel the touch of another’s skin moving over your own skin, a desire to breathe, a desire to live, a desire to laugh intensely like it was the best thing God ever created…this is lust as defined by me. And I think that’s what it really is.” -C. JoyBell C.

10. “Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.” -Marquis de Sade

11. “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.” -Francis Quarles

12. “Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.” -Blaise Pascal

13. “If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.” -Mortimer Adler

14. “Lust is, of all the frailties of our nature, what most we ought to fear; the headstrong beast rushes along, impatient of the course; nor hears the rider’s call, nor feels the rein.” -Nicholas Rowe

15. “But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like ‘forever.’ Maybe because forever is such a scary place.” -Ellen Hopkins

16. “Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.” -Karl Kraus

17. “Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.” -Demonax

18. “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.” -Emily Maguire

19. “Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.” -John Lahr

20. “Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.” -Zoroaster

21. “The young habitually mistake lust for love, they’re infested with idealism of all kinds.” -Margaret Atwood

22. “Lust is a tool, desire a trap. Wield the first, and you can take someone’s soul. Fall into the second, and they can take yours.” -Riley Shane

23. “Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.” -Laurell K. Hamilton

24. “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.” -Pliny the Elder

25. “Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust.” -Kurt Vonnegut

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