Quotes About Temptation

We never sampled our drugs because we were afraid of them, but to admit it aloud would have broken the spell.

You can't move away from your addiction, it will follow you wherever you go.

There are days when you just don't feel all that evil. You don't become a world-class villain overnight. -Dr. Impossible

You want to do it? I might. If you offer me enough. Howard—anything you ask. Anything. I'd sell my soul... That's the sort of thing I want you to understand. To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul—would you understand why that's much harder?

I've wanted to want it. I should think it would be exciting to become a dissolute woman.

I want to drink. I want a woman like you. I want to go down, as far as you can drag me.

You knew better than that. And it's such an old one to me. My antisocial stubbornness is so well-known that I didn't think anyone would waste time trying to tempt me again.

She nonetheless survives as a wanton temptress, not the last time a genuinely powerful woman has been transmuted into a shamelessly seductive one.

He is drunk at least 22 hours of every 24 and never without one or two whores in company.")

She was beautiful all right, beautiful in a way that was at once seductive, demonic, and raspberry.

Too much beauty undermines the marriage vows, too much knowledge leads to isolation, and too much wealth produces madness.

That is how the dream begins. All around me, something is awaiting my consent, my inner acquiescence, and I know, or rather the knowledge exists, that I must not give way to an unknown temptation, for the more the silence seems to promise, the more terrible the outcome will be. Yet I essentially know no such thing, because I would be afraid if I knew, and I never felt the slightest fear.

Nie lubi? ciem, zw?aszcza gdy siadaj? mi na twarzy, chcia?em j? trzepn??, ale w zasi?gu r?ki by? tylko gruby, twardo oprawiony tom hotelowej Biblii, a Bibli? niezr?cznie jako?.

Oto zÅ'o naszej produkcji, kojÄ…ce pragnienia duszy. Oto chemia, która gÅ'adzi grzechy Å›wiata.

Not just the celibacy thing but because he has God's ear, a line on the mysteries. That's impressive to girls.

Gratis?» ha detto la mamma. È l'unica parola al mondo a cui non sa resistere. Da anni le teniamo nascosto che si muore gratis, perché sarebbe capace di suicidarsi all'istante.

E lei ora desidera. È uscito del letargo della sua rassegnata solitudine, ha scoperto la fame del suo cuore, sa che la mela è proibita, ma desidera. Non avrà più pace, né dieta. [...] Soffrirà, il suo cuore, lo stomaco e le viscere andranno in subbuglio, il suo istinto di Homo erectus potrà essere temprato, ma non vinto. La mela è caduta dall'albero del destino.

L'unico modo per non temere la morte è non pensarla e non crederle. Voltarle le spalle, anche se lei è ovunque, e non puoi voltare le spalle a ciò che è ovunque. Puoi voltare le spalle al deserto? Uno dei misteri della morte è proprio questa nostra follia: tentare di non temerla.

Given the deeply rooted Christian suspicion of sexuality, however, the new view of women as intrinsically asexual improved their reputation. Whereas women had once been considered snares of the devil, they were now viewed as sexual innocents whose purity should inspire all decent men to control their own sexual impulses and baser appetites.

I want to stay young and pure and free, unstained by the sin of Eve.

I have a request to make,my lord. He held her gaze; she could see him trying to decide what she might ask, but eventually he surrendered.And that is? Take me to your bed.

If your middle name is Temptation, then mine is Persistence

Vane watched her reaction from under heavy lids, watched flaring passion light her eyes. Sparks of pure gold flashed in the hazel depths as he gently kneaded, then sent his fingers gliding over her silken skin. He knew he should kiss her, distract her, from what came next- but the compulsion to witness, to know her reaction as she learned what he would do, as he filled his senses with her, waxed strong.

Abstinence. It didn't even sound comfortable