Lust Quotes
On desire, ambition, and the mind's cravings.
These lust quotes contrast lasting love with fleeting lust, drawing on classic reflections about how one grows from a union of souls while the other wastes through Appetites of sense.
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.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
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Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.
Aesthetic Quotes
I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
Innovations, instantly followed by a demented lust for them, now arrive with dizzying speed, not just daily, but in one-hour delivery slots.
No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.
Ambition Quotes
Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.
Before they became Americans, most white inhabitants of the 13 colonies considered themselves British. It was predictable, therefore, that they would lust after empire, because this was exactly what their counterparts on the other side of the Atlantic also did.
Appetites Quotes
My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular 'ism', but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.
Arbitrary Power Quotes
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.
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Other quotes extend the word figuratively, calling Ambition an unquenched lust and curiosity the lust of the mind.
