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Definition of Lust

Lust

  1. Pleasure.
  2. Inclination; desire.
  3. Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had sense; as, the lust of gain.
  4. Licentious craving; sexual appetite.
  5. Hence: Virility; vigor; active power.
  6. To list; to like.
  7. To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; -- often with after.

Lust Quotations

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

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Mahatma Gandhi

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Khalil Gibran

I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.
Keira Knightley

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
Tori Amos
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Lust Translations

lust in Dutch is passie, roes, lust, hartstocht
lust in Finnish is intohimo
lust in German is Begierde, Wollust
lust in Spanish is delicia, lujuria

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