Appearance Quote by Alice Munro

Wickedness is nourished by lust.

— Aristotle

MOST of the ugliness in the human narrative comes from a distorted quest to possess beauty. COVETING begins with appreciating blessings: MURDER begins with…

— Shane Claiborne

“Lust is Only skin deep.”

— Joshua Wisenbaker

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out…

— Albert Camus

And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

— Oscar Wilde

“Most of us have these versions of ourselves that terrify us. We have these imperfect bodies we don't quite know how to cope with.…

— Roxane Gay

Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

— Julie Burchill

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds the shame…

— Theodor Adorno

Lust is a monstrous sin which altereth, marreth, and drieth the body, weakening all the joints and members, making the face bubbled and yellow,…

— Claude C. Hopkins

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

— Georges Bataille

“The distant threat of eternal damnation pales in comparison to the immediate gratification of corrupting young skin.”

— Laura Wiess