Disease Quote by John Donne

There is no disease so destructive as lust.

— Chanakya

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

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

— George Santayana

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

— Demonax

Wickedness is nourished by lust.

— Aristotle

In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

— Charles Dickens

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

From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.

— Juvenal

Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.

— Pope Pius II

Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness.

— Charles Frazier

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

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