Quotes About Temptation

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

Elle devenait en quelque sorte, la déité symbolique de l'indestructible Luxure, la déesse de l'immortelle Hystérie, la beauté maudite, élue entre toutes par la catalepsie qui lui raidit les chairs et lui durcit les muscles; la Bête monstrueuse, indifférente, irresponsable, insensible, empoisonnant, de même que l'Hélène antique, tout ce qui l'approche, tout ce qui la voit, tout ce qu'elle touche.

Le démon ne peut rien sur la volonté, très peu sur l'intelligence et tout sur l'imagination.

He can verify that axiom of demonographers, that the Evil One dupes all persons who give themselves, or are willing to give themselves, to him.

One must bow to nature's law if one is neither impotent nor a saint.

hambrienta de otra piel, de cualquier piel con tal que fuera caliente y que se pudiera morder y apretar y lamer, los hombres no se daban cuenta ni con qué se acostaban, perro, vieja, cualquier cosa.

She was white, perhaps too white. Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant's tusk.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness not to sin offers only punishment.

It's a bit embarrassing but we actually met at a strip club. I was one of her favorite dancers.

Nu de Brangien cea credincioas?, ci de ei însu?i au a se teme iubi?ii. Îns? cum s? stea de veghe inimile lor bete de dragoste? Iubirea îi îmbolde?te, a?a cum setea îl repede pe cerb c?tre râu, la ananghie, ori tot a?a precum, dup? o lung? înfometare, ?oimul slobozit se las? pe prad?. Vai! dragostea nu se poate t?nui.

Hmm. I'm tempted. But what works against my temptation is the ancient junior high code of Omerta. Nobody squeals on nobody, no matter what.

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.

Everyone has his price. It's just a case of making an offer that pleases him but doesn't hurt you too much. - Dad

What is evil?' asked the Fiend

It's a good job I've not much appetite, lad," he said, shaking his head. "Because hunger would force me to eat all that, and I'm not sure I'd survive the experience.

Take my advice, dear reader, don't talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram.

I-156. Whereto with speedy words th' Arch-fiend reply'd. / Fall'n Cherube, to be weak is miserable / Doing or Suffering: but of this be sure, / To do ought good never will be our task, / But ever to do ill our sole delight, / As being the contrary to his high will / Whom we resist.

Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?

Ja tu patieš?m grib?tu pamest savu nepaciet?go meiteni, ja m?su mazais m?las st?sts j?noglab? k?d? kambar?t?, ko atcer?sies tikai dažreiz, es tom?r v?l?šos to kambar?ti un došos turp reizi pa reizei gluži k? uz istabi?u k?d? vec? viesn?c? j?ras krast?, kur divi gr?cinieki dar?ja to, ko nedr?kst?ja.

There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly.

I must not bite him. Moon

You can't always do the right thing. No matter how much you want to.