Deadly Sins Quotes

“It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“There are seven deadly sins, not just one, and Christianity's understanding of marriage and chastity is intimately bound to its views on gluttony, avarice and pride. (Recall that in the Inferno, Dante consigns gluttons, misers, and spendthrifts to lower circles of hell than adulterers and fornicators.)”
― Ross Douthat, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics

“Not committing the so-called deadly sins is not enough to avoid bad juju in this life, or the next. Those everyday little wrongdoings, like ingratitude, unkindness, and entitlement, are hefty cornerstones of karmic debt.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Hard grind got us the glory, the saying goes—but sloth will slide us back into the sea. And these days, the rising waters feel so near.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“The eighth deadly sin is lies that harm.”
― Maria Karvouni

“Pangea split so now we're filled in a fit of pique.
We brim with lust, spirit willing, but the flesh is weak.
Consumed by greed, shoving everything down our throat.
Sloth a cottonseed, weaving us, we are a coat.
Zeal reveals our hearts conceal a deep and endless pit.
Grudge we hold against the world, she owes us every bit.
Iblis sees humanity's impending aftermath.
So now my friend, a gift he gives, its ink is wrath.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“Gluttony is an obsolete vice. It was a reality to Dante, in the Middle Ages; it is the vice of hungry races and haggard times, when to feed full is to rob the starving.”
― W. Bolingbroke Johnson, The Widening Stain

“Why is it that STUPIDITY is not one of the Deadly Sins?”
― Carolyn Meyer, Isabel: Jewel of Castilla, Spain, 1466

“...he felt unbearably sorry for himself. It was strange that self-pity wasn't on the list of deadly sins; none was deadlier.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads