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Lust is an intense desire

• Lust: A strong sexual desire. Oxford Dictionary
• Lust: A very powerful feeling of wanting something.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Lust: A passionate or overmastering desire or craving.  Dictionary.com
• Cravings,  Desire,   Sexuality,  Avarice,  Greed,  Passion

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… one of the most intense of all the passions

• Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train. Buddha
• Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes. Marquis de Sade
• 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
• Lust is the oldest lion of them all. Marjorie Allen Seiffert
• Passion

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Religion denigrates lust as a sin …

• Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth. Italian proverb
• Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. Karl Kraus
• 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 price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul–lust. Marina Warner
• There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed. Tulsi Das
• Sin

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… as a spur to vice

• I am the strength, that is devoid of lust and attachment, of the strong. Bhagavad Gita
• 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 a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop. Francis Quarles

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Many warn about the heavy price of unrestrained lust

• From lust comes grief, from lust comes fear; he that is free from lust knows neither grief nor fear. Dhammapada
• God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind. Kahlil Gibran
• He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal. Rumi
• Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed. Bhagavad Gita
• 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. Francis Quarles
• Lust is like rot in the bones. Hebrew proverb
• Lust should be stifled, for it cannot lead to truth. Moses ibn Izra
• lust, thou infernal fire, whose fuel is gluttony; whose flame is pride, whose sparkles are wanton words; whose smoke is infamy; whose ashes are uncleanness; whose end is hell. Francis Quarles
• There is no disease so destructive as lust. Chanakya
• When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. …People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion. Rumi
• Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. John Webster
• Between the horses of love and lust we are trampled underfoot. U2, “So Cruel”

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Subduing and taming lust, they say, brings strength

• Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them. James M. Barrie
• Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and permits truth, virtue, and integrity to rule our minds instead. John MacArthur
• With senses, mind, and intellect under control; having liberation as the prime goal; free from lust, anger, and fear; such a sage is verily liberated. Bhagavad Gita
• Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed. C. S. Lewis

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Lust is about satisfying just yourself …

• 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
• In love the other is important; in lust you are important. Osho
• 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

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… and using your partner as an object to do that

• In all enjoyment there is a choice between enjoying the other and enjoying yourself through the instrumentality of the other. The first is the enjoyment of love; the second is the enjoyment of lust. John McMurray

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Lust doesn’t bring lasting satisfaction

• Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst. Frederick Buechner

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Romantic love and lust are usually seen as different …

• There’s magic to love… Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded in the human brain. They’re going to survive as long as our species survive on what Shakespeare called, this “mortal coil. Helen Fisher
• Romantic love

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… although there can be a fine line between them

• That line between love and lust was thin as a whisper. Julia Karr

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Lust gets easily mistaken for love

• If they substituted the word ‘Lust’ for ‘Love’ in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth. Sylvia Plath
• Love is nothing but lust misspelled. Dan Simmons
• The young habitually mistake lust for love, they’re infested with idealism of all kinds. Margaret Atwood
• Love

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Lust is physical attraction, love goes deeper

• Lust is only skin deep. Joshua Wisenbaker
• You can’t love someone just by looking at them. That is lust. Not saying love can’t come fast, but it doesn’t come first. Teresa Mummert
• Love comes from the heart, lust comes …lower. Teresa Mummert

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Lust fades quickly while love grows

• Lust fades, so you’d better be with someone who can stand you. Alan Zweibel and Jessie Nelson
• Lust fades after climax, love lasts until breakfast! Tom Conrad
• 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
• True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away. Alicia Barnhart
• Love grows. Lust wastes by enjoyment, and the reason is, that one springs from an union of souls, and the other from a union of sense. William Penn
• Lust tastes like tequila, love tastes like whiskey. Love burns for longer, warms you up on the inside and sometimes makes you do stupid things. Tequila just makes you wasted. You get wasted on lust and warmed on love. JAction
• The thing I never understood about love is that it can’t be quelled, like lust can. With love, if you follow its call, if you give in to it, it just gets worse. The more you have, the deeper you go, the more you need. Emily Maguire
• Someone asked me about the difference between love and lust. Hmmm. That will take a little thought. How to tell the difference? Well, for guys, if she looks better AFTER you’ve made love to her than before, that might be love. If you find yourself itching to get out the door afterward, probably just lust, y’know? Steven Barnes

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Lust is just wanting to sleep with someone, love is wanting to be with them

• Lust is wanting to sleep with someone. Love is wanting to wake up next to them in the morning.
• 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

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Love is compassionate, lust is impassive

• I was completely and irrevocably in lust; which tends to make a person impassive to others’ pain. Love makes us compassionate. Lust makes us deaf to all but the lover. Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney
• The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. Alan Wilson Watts

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Here are some more ways to tell love and lust apart

• Signs of lust. You’re totally focused on a person’s looks and body. You’re interested in having sex, but not in having conversations. You’d rather keep the relationship on a fantasy level, not discuss real feelings. You want to leave soon after sex rather than cuddling or breakfast the next morning. You are lovers, but not friends. Judith Orloff, M.D.
• Signs of love. You want to spend quality time together other than sex. You get lost in conversations and forget about the hours passing. You want to honestly listen to each other’s feelings, make each other happy. He or she motivates you to be a better person. You want to get to meet his or her family and friends. Judith Orloff, M.D.
• Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But lust’s effect is tempest after sun; Love’s gentle spring doth always fresh remain, Lust’s winter comes ere summer half be done; Love surfeit’s not, Lust like a glutton dies, Love is all truth, Lust full. William Shakespeare
• Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation. Mason Cooley
• Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it’s easier to fight. Laurell K. Hamilton
• Lust is easy. Love is hard.  Like is most important.   Carl Reiner
• Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone. Teresa Mummert
• Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love. E. M. Forster
• There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise. Anne Fortier
• Too often the saint has agreed with the debauchee that the only difference between married love and lust is that one is allowed and the other is not. Sydney Cave
• Lust is all GET—Love is all GIVE.

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Some argue lust gets in the way of romantic love

• The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love. Doug Horton
• Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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Others argue that lust is a healthy part of a loving relationship

• When you are secure in yourself, know what turns you on, and enjoy watching your partner watch you experience sexual pleasure, you have a highly novel relationship grounded in love. The experience of seeing and being seen fuels lust and desire. This is exactly the way you integrate healthy lust and love into your sex life. It’s relational sex, not the old pornographic sex of past addictions. Alexandra Katehakis

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For better or worse, lust is becoming a way of life and no longer a vice

• Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other, each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites are often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog-eat- dog world we lose part of our humanity. Jon Foreman
• Vice

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Some argue we should accept our feelings of lust as part of being human …

• Accept the unacceptable: lust, greed, envy, hate, murder.  Feelings like these are just as much a part of you as anything else.  We may not be proud of it, but we can’t help it, and it doesn’t help to pretend it isn’t there.  We’re social animals, and feelings about our status in the tribe, our access to the best mates to pass down our genes, are hard- wired into us.  We want to control how we act on these feelings, but we don’t have to pretend they don’t exist.  Richard O’Connor
• I’m not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human. C. JoyBell C.

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… that we should embrace our lust …

• I don’t know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another’s skin on my skin…a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary. C. JoyBell C.
• If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn’t repel them. Camille Paglia
• My spirit is healthy, yes. But I tell you, my flesh is healthy too. I am enlightened and free, but I am also lustful and carnal. JoyBell C.
• People wait around too long for love. I’m happy with all of my lusts! JoyBell C.

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… even add spice to it

• Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust. Marquis de Sade
• If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be. Marquis de Sade
• There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire. Jacqueline Carey

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Lust is not just about sex

• 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

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There is also the lust for knowledge

• Curiosity is the lust of the mind. Thomas Hobbes
• Desire to know why, and how — curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge — exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. Thomas Hobbes
• Knowledge

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There is the lust for wealth

• 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
• Bound by hundreds of ties of desire and enslaved by lust and anger; they strive to obtain wealth by unlawful means for the fulfillment of desires. Bhagavad Gita
• Wealth

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There is the lust for power

• Do not ever say that the desire to “do good” by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. Ayn Rand
• Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions. Publius Cornelius Tacitus
• 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
• The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion. Publius Cornelius Tacitus
• Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it. Winston Churchill
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There is the lust for ambition

• Ambition is a lust that is never quenched but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. Thomas Otway
• Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust. Daniel Noonan
• Ambition

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There is lust for possessions

• Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising. John Lahr

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There is the lust for comfort

• The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. Khalil Gibran
• The lust for comfort murders the passions of the soul. Kahlil Gibran
• We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. Richard Foster
• Comfort

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There is the ego lusting for satisfaction

• The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious appetite for its version of “truth.”  It is the most challenging aspect to conquer; the cause for most spiritual turmoil.  F. Hodge

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• I lust love to play football. Ray Nitschke
• 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
• Lust fades after climax, love lasts until breakfast! Tom Conrad
• Lust fades, so you’d better be with someone who can stand you. Alan Zweibel and Jessie Nelson
• 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
• Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read. George Burns
• Scotland: A land of meanness sophistry and lust. George (Lord) Byron
• Security: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.  Joseph Conrad
• 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
• What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films. Billy Wilder

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