Quotes About Temptation

We're sinking into each other's gazes. We're like starving people gorging on cream cakes. But he's challenged me, and I'm not going to wuss out, no way. So I wrench myself away and go to pester a strange blond woman about the circus. I don't look back once, the entire time I'm talking to her. But I can feel his eyes on me all the time. Like sunshine.

I want him. Desperately. Even I simultaneously know that a lot of things I might want in life are not good choices.

I tell myself to look away, but the truth is, I don't want to look away. I want to be drawn into his gaze. Which is dumb. And wrong. He belongs to another woman, I remind myself sternly. He likes whiny, shouty, newsreadery-type women.

At this point, I felt a sudden pang. A yearning to climb up into the tree house again. To lie down on the smooth wooden boards, gaze up at the sky through the open windows and just... remember. But I chose to ignore it. If you listened to every pang, you wouldn't get anywhere in life.

Of all vile things current on earth, none is so vile as money.

Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater. That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes, Tempts and deludes the most well-meaning soul, Pointing out the way to infamy and shame. - Creon

The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes.

Bu durumda dostlar?m, ne ak?ll? ne dindar olmak mümkündür; kötülüÄŸün içinde bizi kötülüÄŸe zorlayan güç çok büyüktür.

I'm so immersed in all this evil, how could I not be evil too?

Then faith's paradox is this: that the single individual is higher than the universal, that the single individual determines his relation to the universal through his relation to God, not his relation to God through his relation through the universal... Unless this is how it is, faith has no place in existence; and faith is then a temptation.

I know that sometimes in my own life I really felt like killing people.

At 14, I was playing in clubs until 3 A.M. My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans and my mother was a judge, so I saw hookers and drugs but I never wanted that life.

I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.

Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.

Life's full of opportunities to make crappy decisions that feel good. And after the first one, the rest get a whole lot easier.

We risk life and limb and my princely good looks for a spoonful of sweet sock?

She'd never in her whole life bunked school, smoked dope, or kissed a boy whose name she didn't know, and yet in the last few days, she'd done all these things.

Life is seductive, yet so few allow themselves to be seduced.

Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?

If I have one addiction in life, it's probably food.

In appearance, the worldly life looks attractive, but once you enter into it, you can never become free.

We danced with the devil with demons in our heart.

In this worldly life, one is possessed by the three ghosts of the mind, speech and the body.

For convenience sake, we deny the truth and look past it. Instant pleasure transforms quietly into immense pain.