Top Lust Quotes By Stoics, Christians, and Contemporary Wise Philosophers

Lust is the devil’s counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting as lust.

– Dwight L. Moody

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

– Marquis de Sade

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

Beware of lust; it corrupteth both the body and the mind.

– Zoroaster

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.

– Mahatma Gandhi

God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.

– Martin Luther

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.

– Pliny the Elder

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

– Claudius Claudianus

Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

– Saint Augustine

No one is immune to temptation. Not even a hero. Not even a nobody. Not even people like you and me. Lust is never very far away. And just when you least expect it, there it is again.

– Charles R. Swindoll

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

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

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

– Douglas Horton

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

– John Lahr

Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

– William Penn

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

– Calvin Miller

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

– Alan Zweibel

The antidote to the lust of the flesh is integrity.

– Rick Warren

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

– Matthew 5:28

But each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

– James 1:14-15

 So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

– 2 Timothy 2:22

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

– 1 Corinthians 6:18

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.

– 1 Peter 2:11

The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.

– Romans 8:6