Appetite Quote by Geoffrey Wood

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

— Demonax

the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species kicks in.

— Nicholas Sparks

“I’m also suddenly all over the idea of lust. Previously, I had scoffed at it. Sure, I looked at people and could see they…

— Fen Wilde

“Whether this desire for sex is moderate or not, it is usually called lust.”

— Baruch Spinoza

“Sex could be a gift of God, but when it becomes an obsession, it plunders all intelligence and people are driven to abominable acts…

— Radhanath Swami

Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.

— Anselm of Canterbury

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

— Georges Bernanos

“I'd heard about people falling in love, and I'd heard about lust. What I had never heard about was this all-consuming need to be…

— Ella Frank

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

— Frederick Buechner

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

— Francis Quarles