{"quotes":[{"text":"Here all great emotions decay: here only little, dry emotions may rattle!Do you not smell already the slaughter-houses and cook-shops of the spirit? Does this city not reek of the fumes of slaughtered spirit?Do you not see the souls hanging like dirty, limp rags? – And they also make newspapers from these rags!Have you not heard how the spirit has here become a play with words? It vomits our repulsive verbal swill! – And they also make newspapers from this verbal swill.They pursue one another and do not know where. They inflame one another, and do not know why. They rattle their tins, they jingle their gold.They are cold and seek warmth in distilled waters; they are inflamed and seek coolness in frozen spirits; they are all ill and diseased with public opinion.All lusts and vices are at home here; but there are virtuous people here, too, there are many adroit, useful virtues.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["emotions","lust","spirit","vice","virtue"],"id":1194,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"Each night I lie and dream about the oneWho kissed me and awakened my desireI spent a single hour with him aloneAnd since that hour, my days are layed with fire.","author":"L.J. Smith","tags":["cassie-blake","lust","obsession","yearning"],"id":1228,"author_id":"L.J.+Smith"},{"text":"Lust arrives as an angel disguised as love, but it's still lust, not love.","author":"Scarlet Risque","tags":["love","love","lust","lustofinsanity","philisophy"],"id":1384,"author_id":"Scarlet+Risque"},{"text":"Nobody, she felt, understood her--not her mother, not her father, not her sister or brother, none of the girls or boys at school, nadie--except her man.","author":"Raquel Cepeda","tags":["adolescence","first-love","infatuation","love","lust","teenage-love","teenagers"],"id":2087,"author_id":"Raquel+Cepeda"},{"text":"Our foundation is rockybecause we made a home in each other’s skin.The damage is beginning to show.","author":"K.Y. Robinson","tags":["breakup","heartbreak","lust","poem","poetry"],"id":4370,"author_id":"K.Y.+Robinson"},{"text":"The smell of cigarette smoke in the air in a tavern that changes names often,a bar cursed because of a girl who died of a drug overdose in the basement, we put a few coins in the jukebox;chose “Angel Band” by Johnny Cash and sat down at the bar,ordered a soda, you wanted a whiskey on the rocks.We saw the coal miner who moved here from West Virginiaknocking back liquor like I drink sweet tea.No one asked why he was so solemn today.It was warm. It was relatively quiet.To anyone else, this place could feel sinister.But to us, it was freedom. It was a hiding place.No one was ever here long enough to know us.And we liked it that way.","author":"Taylor Rhodes","tags":["adult-nonfiction","diary","freedom","journal","love","lust","memoir","nonfiction","running-away","self-discovery","self-exploration","sixteenth-notes","taylor-rhodes","young-adult","youth-nonfiction"],"id":6206,"author_id":"Taylor+Rhodes"},{"text":"No matter how we may rationalize the practice [of homosexuality] . . . Romans 1 makes it clearly the product of a reprobate mind . . .I am not exonerating all heterosexual activity . . . When we come to Christ, we are called upon to repent of our sins and no longer to practice the ungodly patterns of living.","author":"Billy Graham","tags":["billy-graham","lust"],"id":6214,"author_id":"Billy+Graham"},{"text":"I will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss.","author":"Laurell K. Hamilton","tags":["anita-blake","blood","hot","jean-claude","kiss","laurell-k-hamilton","lust","romance","vampire"],"id":8326,"author_id":"Laurell+K.+Hamilton"},{"text":"This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth.","author":"Steve Almond","tags":["desire","escapism","lust","youth"],"id":10637,"author_id":"Steve+Almond"},{"text":"As for the vice of lust - aside from what it means for spiritual persons to fall into this vice, since my intent is to treat of the imperfections that have to be purged by means of the dark night - spiritual persons have numerous imperfections, many of which can be called spiritual lust, not because the lust is spiritual but because it proceeds from spiritual things. It happens frequently that in a person's spiritual exercises themselves, without the person being able to avoid it, impure movements will be experienced in the sensory part of the soul, and even sometimes when the spirit is deep in prayer or when receiving the sacraments of Penance or the Eucharist. These impure feelings arise from any of three causes outside one's control. First, they often proceed from the pleasure human nature finds in spiritual exercises. Since both the spiritual and the sensory part of the soul receive gratification from that refreshment, each part experiences delight according to its own nature and properties. The spirit, the superior part of the soul, experiences renewal and satisfaction in God; and the sense, the lower part, feels sensory gratification and delight because it is ignorant of how to get anything else, and hence takes whatever is nearest, which is the impure sensory satisfaction. It may happen that while a soul is with God in deep spiritual prayer, it will conversely passively experience sensual rebellions, movements, and acts in the senses, not without its own great displeasure. This frequently happens at the time of Communion. Since the soul receives joy and gladness in this act of love - for the Lord grants the grace and gives himself for this reason - the sensory part also takes its share, as we said, according to its mode. Since, after all, these two parts form one individual, each one usually shares according to its mode in what the other receives. As the Philosopher says: Whatever is received, is received according to the mode of the receiver. Because in the initial stages of the spiritual life, and even more advanced ones, the sensory part of the soul is imperfect, God's spirit is frequently received in this sensory part with this same imperfection. Once the sensory part is reformed through the purgation of the dark night, it no longer has these infirmities. Then the spiritual part of the soul, rather than the sensory part, receives God's Spirit, and the soul thus receives everything according to the mode of the Spirit.","author":"San Juan de la Cruz","tags":["communion","depravity","eucharist","fallen-nature","holy-spirit","lust","sin"],"id":10666,"author_id":"San+Juan+de+la+Cruz"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":578,"pages":58,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}