Lust
Quotes - I can’t stop myself when you’re around me
“He
was the kind of young man whose handsome face has brought him plenty of success
in the past and is now ever-ready for a new encounter, a fresh-experience,
always eager to set off into the unknown territory of a little adventure, never
taken by surprise because he has worked out everything in advance and is
waiting to see what happens, a man who will never overlook any erotic
opportunity, whose first glance probes every woman's sensuality, and explores
it, without discriminating between his friend's wife and the parlour-maid who
opens the door to him. Such men are described with a certain facile contempt as
lady-killers, but the term has a nugget of truthful observation in it, for in
fact all the passionate instincts of the chase are present in their ceaseless
vigilance: the stalking of the prey, the excitement and mental cruelty of the
kill. They are constantly on the alert, always ready and willing to follow the
trail of an adventure to the very edge of the abyss. They are full of passion
all the time, but it is the passion of a gambler rather than a lover, cold,
calculating and dangerous. Some are so persistent that their whole lives, long
after their youth is spent, are made an eternal adventure by this expectation.
Each of their days is resolved into hundreds of small sensual experiences - a
look exchanged in passing, a fleeting smile, knees brushing together as a
couple sit opposite each other - and the year, in its own turn, dissolves into
hundreds of such days in which sensuous experience is the constantly flowing,
nourishing, inspiring source of life.”
―
Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories
“Fiona
grabbed Rick in her arms and sobbed, “Oh Rick, this song drives me crazy. I
can’t stop myself when you’re around me. I’m losing control of myself. Rick,
please tell them to stop, otherwise I don’t know what I will do.” Saying this,
Fiona placed her lips on Rick’s lips. Now Rick was no longer in a position to
speak so that he could ask the DJ to change the song. He only needed to signal
the DJ to do that. But after tasting the moisture on Fiona’s lips, which was
like dewdrops on rose petals, he realized that this endeavour would have
required a lot of courage, which he most certainly lacked at the time.”
―
Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac
“The
intercourse was over in no time. That intercourse gave Karl a feeling of
unprecedented pleasure. On the other hand, it failed to bring back Luna to
reality, as she had been floating into another dimension. And it left Fiona
with a deep hatred for Luna.”
―
Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac
“I
will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats
only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss.”
―
Laurell K. Hamilton, Burnt Offerings
“I
watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on
ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious
cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor
defend.”
―
Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
“Or
maybe spring is the season of love and fall the season of mad lust. Spring for
flirting but fall for the untamed delicious wild thing.”
―
Elizabeth Cohen, The Hypothetical Girl: Stories
“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
“It's
a curious, wanting thing.”
―
Sarah Waters, Fingersmith
“The
more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the
universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race.
Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side
with a lust for destruction.
{Speech
accepting the John Burroughs Medal}”
―
Rachel Carson
“And
it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who
had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic or not.”
―
Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction
“Wine
and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong."
However,
the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the woman. The fault is in the
one who misuses the wine or the woman or other of God's crations. Even if you
get drunk on the wine and through this greed you lapse into lechery, the wine
is not to blame but you are, in being unable or unwilling to discipline
yourself. And even if you look at a woman and become caught up in her beauty
and assent to sin [= adultery; extramarital sex], the woman is not to blame nor
is the beauty given her by God to be disparaged: rather, you are to blame for
not keeping your heart more clear of wicked thoughts. ... If you feel yourself
tempted by the sight of a woman, control your gaze better ... You are free to
leave her. Nothing constrains you to commit lechery but your own lecherous
heart.”
―
Anonymous, Dives and Pauper
“Young
girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said
to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to
them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not
dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.”
―
Michael Bassey Johnson, Scars Of Beauty
“The
girl in the tight black dress was passing by us now, eyeing Wes and walking
entirely too slowly. "Hi," she said, and he nodded at her but didn't
reply. Knew it, I thought.
Honestly,"
I said.
What?"
Come
on. You have to admit, it's sort of ridiculous."
What
is?"
Now
that I had to define it, I found myself struggling for the right words.
"You know," I said, then figured Kristy had really summed it up best.
"The sa-woon."
The
what?”
―
Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
“He
looked at me like I was the stars when all I’d ever felt like was the dark
nothingness between them.”
―
Ranata Suzuki
