Appetite Quote by Tryon Edwards

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

— Seneca the Younger

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pleasures are manifestations of God's name.

— Baal Shem Tov

Temptation coaxes us toward sin, and sin leads to sickness and death, and ultimately confinement in the realm of the evil one.

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us…

— Madame de Lambert

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this…

— David Foster Wallace

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

— Quintilian

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add…

— William Law

Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

— Epictetus

“From the evil seed of lust all other deadly sins had sprung forth: pride in himself and contempt of others, covetousness in using money…

— James Joyce

“Each instinct and passion of man is amoral; it is only the abuse of these passions that makes them wrong. There is nothing wrong…

— Fulton J. Sheen

... in a wicked way, it is an incentive to good living to observe the spice of enjoyment there is to a godly soul…

— Margaret Deland