Body Quote by Claude C. Hopkins

Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of man, and…

— Francis Quarles

Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body…

— Jeremy Taylor

Lust is a ruinous and otherwise gratuitous, malignant desire. It's is a hunger for that which should never be consumed; it's a thirst for…

— Colby Tatem

Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.

— Diogenes

Lust is a pleasure bought with pains, a delight hatched with disquiet, a content passed with fear, and a sin finished with sorrow.

— Demonax

Lust is the base of most physical ills, and like a tapeworm in the system, it feeds on our best energies and vitality.

— James Ussher

Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in…

— Georges Bernanos

Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness…

— Pliny the Elder

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

— Blaise Pascal

Lust is as it were desire and desire, will which extends beyond the natural will, passionate, not governed by the law and moderation. There…

— Patriarch Philaret of Moscow

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

— C. S. Lewis

Lust is the devil's counterfeit for love. There is nothing more beautiful on earth than a pure love and there is nothing so blighting…

— Dwight L. Moody