Quotations About / On: LUST

  • 41.
    ... the virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.
    (Sarah M. Grimke (1792-1873), U.S. abolitionist and feminist. Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman, letter #8: dated 1837 (1838). Grimke, the daughter of a wealthy South Carolina slaveowner, had witnessed slavery at first hand and was passionately opposed to it.)
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  • 42.
    Love, love, love—all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.
    (Germaine Greer (b. 1939), Australian feminist writer. The Female Eunuch, "Obsession," (1970).)
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  • 43.
    We lay long in the immense tide
    Of shade and shadowy desire
    And saw the dusk assail the wall,
    The black surge, mounting, crash the stone!
    Companion of this lust, we fall,
    I said lest we should die alone.
    (Allen Tate (1899-1979), U.S. poet, critic. "Shadow and Shade.")
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  • 44.
    Love, love, love—all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.
    (Germaine Greer (b. 1939), Australian feminist writer. The Female Eunuch, "Obsession," (1970).)
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  • 45.
    Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals ... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
    (Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), British philosopher. Leviathan, pt. 1, ch. 6 (1651).)
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  • 46.
    Even Lust the Master of a hardned Face,
    Blushes if thou beest in the place,
    To darkness' Curtains he retires,
    In Sympathizing Night he rowls his smoaky Fires.

    When, Goddess, thou liftst up thy wakened Head,
    Out of the Mornings purple bed,
    Thy Quire of Birds about thee play,
    And all the joyful world salutes the rising day.
    (Abraham Cowley (1618-1667), British poet. Hymn: To Light (l. 57-64). . . Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose, Vols. I-II. Vol. I: 1600-1660; Vol. II: 1660-1700. Helen C. White, Ruth C. Wallerstein, and Ricardo Quintana, eds. (1951, 1952) The Macmillan Company.)
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  • 47.
    So cruel prison how could betide, alas,
    As proud Windsor, Where I in lust and joy
    With a king's son my childish years did pass
    In greater feast than Priam's sons of Troy?
    Where each sweet place returns a taste full sour;
    (Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?-1547), British poet. So cruel prison how could betide, alas (l. 1-5). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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  • 48.
    But Thou that know'st Love above Intrest or lust
    Strew the Myrtle and Rose on this once belov'd Dust
    And shed one pious tear upon Jinny the Just
    Tread soft on her Grave, and do right to her honor
    Let neither rude hand no ill Tongue light upon her
    Do all the smal Favors that now can be done her
    (Matthew Prior (1664-1721), British poet. Jinny the Just (l. 13-18). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 49.
    I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
    (Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 54 (1929, rev. 1970).)
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  • 50.
    Love, if you love me,
    lie next to me.
    Be for me, like rain,
    the getting out

    of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi-
    lust of intentional indifference.
    (Robert Creeley (b. 1926), U.S. poet. The Rain (l. 17-22). . . The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982) University of California Press.)
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