Blindness Quote by Saint Basil

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

— Diogenes

Lust is inseparably accompanied with the troubling of all order, with impudence, unseemliness, sloth, and dissoluteness.

— Plato

Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness…

— Pliny the Elder

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

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

— Demonax

“Sin said, "Lust was never satisfied. She was the largest of the three, and had the loudest, most unforgiving cry. When I tried to…

— Stephen and Tiffany Domena

The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection; the object thou burnest for nauseates with satiety, and no sooner hadst thou possessed it,…

— Robert Dodsley

“Clinging to what is dear brings sorrow and fear. Sorrow and fear spring from affection; from indulgence in sensual pleasures; from preoccupation with lustful…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

Love is the rose. Lust is the thorn.

— Sri Sathya Sai Baba

“Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be, Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly; - 153 -”

— Munindra Misra

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

“I was completely and irrevocably in lust; which tends to make a person impassive to others’ pain. Love makes us compassionate. Lust makes us…

— Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney