Confusing Quote by Georges Bernanos

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

— Claude C. Hopkins

Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some men's lusts,…

— Herbert Spencer

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Diogenes

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 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 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, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it…

— Julian Fellowes

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