Lust Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old lust quotes, lust sayings, and lust proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

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
There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame. Juvenal
Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is it never lies. Laurell K. Hamilton
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence. Mason Cooley
Love begins with an image lust with a sensation. Mason Cooley
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
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
Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy, anger, and sloth alms to covetousness. Richard of Chichester
When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion. Rumi
Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God. Saint Augustine
Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. Saint Augustine
The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest. The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless the last corruption of degenerate man. Samuel Johnson
The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off. Tacitus
Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men's lusts, but cannot change their hearts. Thomas Boston
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind. Thomas Hobbes
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. Thomas Otway
In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe. Tori Amos
He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart. William Kingdon Clifford
Love grows. Lust wastes by enjoyment and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense. William Penn
Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it. Winston Churchill