Able Quote by Gautama Buddha

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.

— Gautama Buddha

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

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

— 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 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 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's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

— Marquis de Sade

It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when…

— Ramakrishna