Welcome to our collection of lust quotes, where we delve into the complex and often captivating realm of desire. Lust, a potent and primal force, has inspired poets, philosophers, and artists throughout the ages, leaving an indelible mark on literature, art, and human experience. From the fiery passions of forbidden love to the seductive allure of temptation, lust encompasses a spectrum of emotions that both enthralls and challenges us.
In this curated selection, we explore the myriad facets of lust, from its exhilarating highs to its tumultuous lows. These quotes offer insights into the intense longing, fervent yearning, and magnetic attraction that define this elemental force. Whether it’s the intoxicating rush of infatuation or the raw intensity of physical desire, lust has the power to consume, transform, and ultimately shape our lives. Join us on this journey as we uncover the profound truths and complexities hidden within the essence of lust. Now, without further ado, let the quotes on this topic below ignite your imagination, stir your emotions, and spark your creativity.
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. Joseph Addison
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust. Marquis de Sade
Writing is like a ‘lust,’ or like ‘scratching when you itch.’ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out. C. S. Lewis
The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel – I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship. Suzanne Brockmann
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. Mercy Otis Warren
My favorite thing about my grandmother is her lust for life and how much she has shown me about living every day to the fullest. To say my grandmother has paved the way for me and so many women out there like me is an understatement. Meghan McCain
All human states are organic brain states – happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels – and our brains are not static. Siri Hustvedt
The rumba is the dance of love and lust. Hannah Brown
In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They’re low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why – these guys are too sad. Rob Sheffield
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman. Aleister Crowley
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. John Lahr
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. John Metcalf
I don’t think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don’t think you can fake it. Keira Knightley
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful… or fun for that matter. Dave Mustaine
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love. Douglas Horton
Innovations, instantly followed by a demented lust for them, now arrive with dizzying speed, not just daily, but in one-hour delivery slots. Peter Baynham
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. Karl Kraus
Transfer windows are pretty much the living embodiment of the seven deadly sins. Sloth, gluttony, envy, greed, lust and pride are all represented in the frenzy of the market. Simon Jordan
One of Britain’s big problems throughout history has been that we lust after consumer goods from elsewhere, but our friends overseas have been less enthusiastic about buying things we produce. Kate Williams
If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you’re deluding yourself. Beau Willimon
Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship. Helen Fisher
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat. John Boyd Orr
Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance. Donald Ray Pollock
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
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. Thomas Otway
People never know how strong is their lust for being cheated. Joe Chung
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. John Webster
There’s a difference between lust and passionate love. Lust can’t just creep in. You’ll not find it where true love exists, but it has power enough to shatter the world you’ve worked so hard to create with love, and sometimes, it suddenly changes how you perceived love to begin with. Love then doesn’t live there anymore. Jennifer Winget
The basis of tragedy is man’s helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man’s helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power). Dawn Powell
Gravitation is the lust of the cosmos. Mary Roach
It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities. Johann Arndt
I have to have a story I really want to tell, and then it makes sense to put things out there. So if you see, 2018 was again crazy for me. I did ‘Lust Stories’, ‘Made in Heaven’ and ‘Gully Boy’. Zoya Akhtar
I have this lust for the so-called South Seas. I would like to explore every corner of the Pacific. You know the song: ‘To everything turn, turn, turn, there is a season.’ It’s just time. Bob Iger
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. Sam Kean
People who are in jobs are striving to gain the most they can before they die through financial means, through their flesh, the lust of their flesh and man’s drive for power. But as believers we are to be the opposite. We are to be humble, not prideful. We are to think of things that are true, whatever is noble, and whatever is worthy. Jeremy Camp
All the seven deadly sins are man’s true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you’re made to feel guilty for being human, then you’re going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can’t escape from. Marilyn Manson
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence. Mason Cooley
I believe in lust at first sight; I don’t know about love. For me, I think it takes more than a glance. But who knows? Maybe it’ll happen. Ashley Roberts
Curiosity is the lust of the mind. Thomas Hobbes
People never know what to do with women who write, especially about lust, in a way that isn’t sanitised and held back. Dawn Foster
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust. Mahatma Gandhi
The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang. John Updike
Throw out the fun-killers that you carry about with yourselves all the time. Three of them are lust, greed, and hatred. Dada Vaswani
It is time that the female gaze made its presence felt both in cinema and in a world that’s been driven by intolerance, greed, hate and lust. We need to make gentler, more inclusive films where multiple voices may be heard. Aparna Sen
Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these. Dakin Matthews
Everything we do these days – our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality, our fidelity to cults of technology and limitless growth, our narcissistic national exceptionalism – all of this propels us toward the realm where souls abandon all hope. James Howard Kunstler
Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they’re immortal. P. C. Cast
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. Henry A. Wallace
You have to be able to carry a conversation. I think after the initial attraction kind of dies down. The lust dies down. There has to be the thing that engages you. Chris Pine
When she stepped out of that spumy sea Aphrodite was said to have brought fertility, flowers, life, light to a barren world. For centuries women and men went to her sanctuaries to seek her pity and protection. Her domain was originally not just lust, but lust for life. Bettany Hughes
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. Linda Colley
Men are naturally barbarians, and that will remain forever. The passion, the love, and the lust is intensifying with time. Fawad Khan
I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play. Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation. Mason Cooley
Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love. E. M. Forster
‘Monkeys’ is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. ‘Folly’ is a series of vignettes all put together to tell a larger story. In ‘Lust and Other Stories,’ there are nine stories – three, three, three; the beginnings of love, the middles, and the afters. Susan Minot
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
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
Though lust do masque in ne’er so strange disguise she’s oft found witty, but is never wise. John Webster
If there is honesty in your face, the battle is won. It doesn’t have to be the most beautiful face in the world. The audience can relate to you then. They feel love, not lust, for you. Preity Zinta
I lust after iPods or Mini Coopers not because they’re unique, but because they’ve been so artfully made that I couldn’t imagine doing it better myself. Clive Thompson
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor’s shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die. William Harvey
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth. Pliny the Elder
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me. Ethel Waters
We as a country, our lust for entertainment has sort of superseded our sense of self-preservation. Sam Levinson
We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them. Paul Auster
I was offered Vicky Kaushal’s role in ‘Lust Stories,’ which I had declined. Badshah
Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco. Ben Jonson
I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me. Jimmy Carter
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
He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana. Buddha
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. Paramahansa Yogananda
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure. Mortimer Adler
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason. Michel de Montaigne
Music – not just the lyrics, but the music itself – expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them. Sarah Churchwell
When gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals come out, their friends and families, for the most part, understand what it feels like to love and to lust. Cisgender people have more of a challenge when it comes to transgender identities. I discovered that analogy of homesickness in conversations with my parents, in trying to bridge that empathy divide. Sarah McBride
I just don’t think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don’t lust after any particular roles. Ron Howard
People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love. Simon Cowell
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind. A. Bartlett Giamatti
Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes. Marquis de Sade
You’re never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, even though I know that I shouldn’t. But I’d give just about anything to be able to do it again. To see the horizon again from the back of a dog team would be wonderful. Gary Paulsen
I lust love to play football. Ray Nitschke
The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust. Paul Bloom
Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought. Charles Spurgeon
Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity – the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power. Irving Babbitt
I have not changed; I am still the same girl I was fifty years ago and the same young woman I was in the seventies. I still lust for life, I am still ferociously independent, I still crave justice, and I fall madly in love easily. Isabel Allende
Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously. Randeep Hooda
The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. Patti Smith
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
Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived. Danielle Steel
I am glad that ‘Lust Stories’ is coming on Netflix as opposed to the kind of commercial release it was going to get. Bhumi Pednekar
You can’t see fear or lust; you can’t photograph someone’s anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations. Duane Michals
From the days of biplanes and silk scarves, the aviator has been the archetype of masculine glamour. Aviators have personified national ideals, from French elan to Soviet party discipline. They’ve inspired lust and admiration. They’ve turned sunglasses and short, utilitarian leather jackets into fashion statements. Virginia Postrel
Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs… gangsters who lust after fortunes and power. Cindy Sheehan
If we weren’t born with anti-social passions – narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious – why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior? Dennis Prager
Food is a great literary theme. Food in eternity, food and sex, food and lust. Food is a part of the whole of life. Food is not separate. Jim Harrison
The Democratic Media Complex, in its pursuit of Orwellian hate-crime legislation, reparations, and sundry non-ameliorative resolutions to America’s troubled racial past, pursues its victims with blood lust. Andrew Breitbart
I don’t think there’s anything like love at first sight. What happens is actually lust at first sight. Abhay Deol
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
Chaos does not unify. Chaos only serves the most extreme elements of society that seek to destabilize any semblance of order to fulfill their selfish lust for power. Daniel Lubetzky