Quotes about sexual desire

He talked and talked, the kind of talking you do to stave off the inevitable physical desire. The kind of talk that only increases it.

Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire,

And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire,

Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves,

So late emerged from, shall so soon expire.

Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by side, naked, breast to breast, with a woman one principally admires?

Why does love, even such love as he claims to practise, need the spectacle of beauty to bring it to life? What, in the abstract, do shapely legs have to do with love, or for that matter with desire? Or is that just the nature of nature, about which one does not ask questions?

My case rests on the rights of desire,’ he says. ‘On the god who makes even the small birds quiver.’

To hold us in check when our desires grow immoderate. As long as our desires are moderate we have no need of laws.

The lustful who punish beauty would be wiser to control lust.

There is no innocence so deep as to veil the urgencies of the flesh from one’s own youthful awareness.

Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.

In my experience, men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.

Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.