Bolts Quote by Plato

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 tool, desire a trap. Wield the first, and you can take someone’s soul. Fall into the second, and they can take…

— Riley Shane

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

— Marquis de Sade

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 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

Wickedness is nourished by lust.

— Aristotle

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

The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

Lust is temporary orgasms. Love is everlasting fulfillment.

— Anonymous

“I wandered through various public rooms, glory below, gloom above: for the look of lust always is gloomy; lust is never quite sure--even when…

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Demonax

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

— Diogenes