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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.

Quotes by William Penn

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Quotes by Thomas Otway

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

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.

Quotes by Sam Kean

Aesthetic Quotes

I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.

Quotes by Ron Howard

I lust love to play football.

Quotes by Ray Nitschke

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Quotes by Pliny the Elder

Innovations, instantly followed by a demented lust for them, now arrive with dizzying speed, not just daily, but in one-hour delivery slots.

Quotes by Peter Baynham

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.

Quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda

Ambition Quotes

Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.

Quotes by P. C. Cast

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.

Quotes by Mercy Otis Warren

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

Quotes by Marquis de Sade

Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.

Quotes by Marquis de Sade

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.

Quotes by Linda Colley

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.

Quotes by Lance Loud

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

Quotes by Karl Kraus

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.

Quotes by Joseph Addison

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.

Quotes by John Metcalf

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

Quotes by John Lahr

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.

Quotes by Frank Chodorov

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these Lust quotes explore?
They examine lust both literally, as contrasted with love, and figuratively, as a metaphor for ambition and curiosity.
Why do people search for lust quotes?
People search for lust quotes for literary or philosophical reflections on desire, distinct from lighter romantic or relationship content.
How do these quotes distinguish love from lust?
One quote argues that love grows while lust wastes through enjoyment, tracing the difference to whether a bond springs from souls or from the senses.
Is ambition compared to lust here?
Yes, another calls ambition a lust that is never quenched, describing it as growing more inflamed the more it is indulged.
Is curiosity described as a form of lust here?
Yes, one short quote calls curiosity 'the lust of the mind,' framing intellectual hunger as its own kind of desire, a theme related to our Aesthetic quotes on appreciation and taste.

Other quotes extend the word figuratively, calling Ambition an unquenched lust and curiosity the lust of the mind.