Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Thomas Otway
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Mohandas Gandhi
Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.
Mason Cooley
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
Mason Cooley
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 the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst
Frederick Buechner
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
Thomas Hobbes
There is no disease (so destructive) as lust; no enemy like infatuation; no fire like wrath; and no happiness like spiritual knowledge.
Chanakya
Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed
Bhagavad Gita
Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The appetite for torment is for some what the lure of gain is for others.
Emil Cioran
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.
Buddha
The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus