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.
The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.
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.
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
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.
Gravitation is the lust of the cosmos.
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
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.
Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
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.
Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.
Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
