Lust
Quotes - In love the other is important; in lust you are important
“I
raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your
shadow.”
―
Ranata Suzuki
“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
“She
was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this
time, only darkness and his lips upon her. She tried to speak and his mouth was
over hers again. Suddenly she had a wild thrill such as she had never known;
joy, fear, madness, excitement, surrender to arms that were too strong, lips
too bruising, fate that moved too fast.”
―
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
“Now
and then, an inch below the water's surface, the muscles of his stomach
tightened involuntarily as he recalled another detail. A drop of water on her
upper arm. Wet. An embroidered flower, a simple daisy, sewn between the cups of
her bra. Her breasts wide apart and small. On her back, a mole half covered by
a strap. When she climbed out of the pond a glimpse of the triangular darkness
her knickers were supposed to conceal. Wet. He saw it, he made himself see it
again. The way her pelvic bones stretched the material clear of the skin, the
deep curve of her waist, her startling whiteness. When she reached for her
skirt, a carelessly raised foot revealed a patch of soil on each pad of her
sweetly diminished toes. Another mole the size of a farthing on her thigh and
something purplish on her calf--a strawberry mark, a scar. Not blemishes.
Adornments.”
―
Ian McEwan, Atonement
“You
should shower," I said. "Right now."
"I
smell that bad?"
Actually,
he smelled that good.”
―
Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush
“Well
enough,” I reply. “Remember, you’re drunk. And happy. You’re supposed to be
lusting over your escort. Try smiling a little more.”
Day
plasters a giant artificial smile on his face. As charming as ever. “Aw, come
on, sweetheart. I thought I was doing a pretty good job. I got my arm around
the prettiest escort on this block—how could I not be lusting over you? Don’t I
look like I’m lusting? This is me, lusting.” His lashes flutter at me.
He
looks so ridiculous that I can’t help laughing. Another passerby glances at me.
“Much better.”
―
Marie Lu, Prodigy
“I
kind of have to go to the bathroom," Aria said woozily.
Ezra
smiled. "Can I come?”
―
Sara Shepard, Pretty Little Liars
“Because
no one has more thirst for earth, for blood, and for ferocious sexuality than
the creatures who inhabit cold mirrors”
―
Alejandra Pizarnik
“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, Juliet
“In
love the other is important; in lust you are important”
―
Osho
“I
know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll
be forever in your heart. ”
―
Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading
“He
ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. "The wait will be fun,
but it's not going to be easy.”
―
Amy Plum, Die for Me
“When
I saw him look at me with lust, I dropped my eyes but, in glancing away from
him, I caught sight of myself in the mirror. And I saw myself, suddenly, as he
saw me, my pale face, the way the muscles in my neck stuck out like thin wire.
I saw how much that cruel necklace became me. And, for the first time in my
innocent and confined life, I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption
that took my breath away.”
―
Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“For
men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The
astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they
understand.”
―
Stephen King, Bag of Bones
“Around
the outside of the room other beautiful women wearing little or nothing at all
flitted between the infatuated, intoxicated men, sometimes luring them away for
a private dance. The men would follow obediently, weighed down by lust and
credit cards.”
―
R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
“I
give her the only honest and true answer I have.
"You're
where I want to be.”
―
Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise
“Dorian
used to watch you like a starving man who wants meat. Now he looks at you like
he wants seconds.”
―
Richelle Mead, Thorn Queen
“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, The 120 Days of Sodom
“Your
smile and your laughter lit my whole world.”
―
Ranata Suzuki
“The
face that was engulfed in sadness just a few moments ago was now having a
diabolical glow.”
―
Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac
“The
world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those
who did not—when they strayed from the straight and narrow it was something so
unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.”
―
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
