Association Quote by Nilus of Sinai

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is…

— Thomas Hobbes

Sexual desire is a state not unlike hunger.

— Mary Roach

The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious appetite, inflamed…

— Edwin Louis Cole

Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends.

— Benjamin Franklin

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

— Peter De Vries

Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistable.

— Leonid Shamkovich

Sexual appetite, like any other appetite, grows by indulgence

— Anonymous

Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.

— Anselm of Canterbury

“That special pleasure she had felt in watching him eat the food she had prepared—she thought, lying still, her eyes closed, her mind moving,…

— Ayn Rand

When you look at food as an ethical issue in the Christian tradition, you don't find very much about it. You don't find, as…

— Peter Singer

For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains…

— Marshall McLuhan