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Lust Quotes - Page 18

One sin, I know, another doth provoke. Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.

William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.756

The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell "Proverbs of Hell" (1790 - 1793)

People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.

Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

For what is there more hideous than avarice, more brutal than lust, more contemptible than cowardice, more base than stupidity and folly?

Marcus Tullius Cicero (1853). “The treatises of M.T. Cicero on the nature of the gods [tr. by T.Francklin]; on divination; on fate; on the republic; on the laws; and on standing for the consulship, tr. chiefly by the ed. C.D.Yonge [and F.Barham].”, p.420

Sex is not the problem [Lust is]

Joshua Harris (2009). “Sex Is Not the Problem (Lust Is): Sexual Purity in a Lust-Saturated World”, Multnomah

He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret

Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.289, Simon and Schuster