Quotes About Temptation

And here indeed it was again, the temptation, the cowardly, the future-corruptive serpent: trample on it stupid fool. Be Mexico.

At first he saw only the shapely legs of the girl who was leading him, now by the constricted power of aching flesh alone, of pathetic trembling yet brutal lust, through the little glass-paned rooms, that grew smaller and smaller, darker and darker,...

Men are as liable to pursue their own ruin as their own advantage. In

If I had had success when I was early twenties I'm sure I would have lost my mind, I would've just partied like crazy and probably blown everything I had.

The devil can be a clown of prizes in moments like these. Moments of knowing you've ventured too far down the wrong path and all you can do is accept more prizes ...

The devil will try to stop you on your path to success, He can do this through doubts and fear

Once you get on the path leading to your success, the devil will try to stop you

So many wants distract man from his divine purpose.

The higher you climb, the more Satan will take notice. Keep climbing! Heaven's gate has a lock.

You'll become that devil overnight, if you want to become that celebrity overnight.

The shores safety keeps many from the oceans treasures.

All my biggest failures began with the smallest compromises.

The more success a person has in life, the greater the danger of fornication can become.

My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death.

There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.

But money, if not mastered, can bring ruin as well as riches

I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.

I always thought it mattered, to know what is the worst possible thing that can happen to you, to know how you can avoid it, to not be drawn by the magic of the unspeakable.

Lust leaves you blind long after you've lost your mind in bed.

At five o'clock Paris always has a current of eroticism in the air.

Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

I cross the street and walk into the Printemps. I go to the counter with necklaces and bracelets and earrings, which dazzle me always. I stand like a fascinated savage. Glitter. Amethyst. Turquoise. Shell pink. Irish green. I would like to be naked and cover myself in cold crystal jewelry. Jewelry and perfume.

Yes, Anaïs, I was thinking how I could betray you, but I can't. I want you. I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit—ah

Perfidious, infinitely desirable, drawing me to her as towards death.