Defenders Quote by Diogenes

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 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 to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty,…

— Marquis de Sade

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 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

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 a state of the mind, love is a state of the heart and soul.

— Anonymous

“Lust is when you want the person to make you feel good. Love is when you want to make the other person feel good.”

— L.J. Shen

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

— Georges Bernanos