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I wonder what the difference is between love and lust.

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.

I would to God that saints would cling to Christ half as earnestly as sinners cling to the devil. If we were as willing to suffer for God as some are to suffer for their lusts, what perseverance and zeal would be seen on all sides!

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Laughter scares off lust.

Line dancing is as sinful as any other type of dancing, with its sexual gestures and touching. It is an incitement to lust.

Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.

Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense of exploration, the undefinable interest of a story, and above all, something forbidden, to stimulate the contumacious appetite.

Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery.

Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!

Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.

Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder.

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 is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds.

Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

Lust fades, so you'd better be with someone who can stand you.

Lust, Greed, Anger, Attachment - These are all paths to hell.

Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.

Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud the preservation of its instruments.

Most people understand that sexual lust has to do with propagating genes. Copulation in nature tends to lead to reproduction and so to more genetic copies. But in modern society, most copulations involve contraception, designed precisely to avoid reproduction. Altruism probably has origins like those 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.

Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes time to stand still, lust kills time, which is not to say that it wastes it or whiles it aimlessly away but rather that it annihilates it, cancels it, extirpates it from continuum; preventing, while lasts, any lapse into the tense and shabby woes of temporal society, lust is the thousand-pound odometer needle on the dashboard of the absolute.

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.

Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

Lust weakens both body and mind.

Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of man, and effeminateth the strength of the heroic mind.

Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.

Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.

Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.

Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties?

Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.

Lust is a thing of the blood. Doesn't need head or heart.

Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.

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

Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

My heart was simultaneously broken and filled with lust, I was exhausted, and I loved every minute of it. It was strange and elating to find myself for once the weaker.

My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.

Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust.

Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.

Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day

One day scientists will more fully understand the chemistry and neuro-circuitry that differentiates love from lust. I couldn't begin to explain the mechanics, but I know that they feel differently.

Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.