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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
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.
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
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.
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.