Quotes About Temptation

At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.

You know where every impulse leads. Master all those that would carry you into situations you know and despise. If you cannot do that, you will never do anything.

L'uomo si ritrae in solitudine per peccare.

It is easy to stand a pain, but difficult to stand an itch.

Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.

Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.

The loveliest trick of the Devil is to persuade you that he does not exist!

There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards Satan.

The devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist.

La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas." ( "The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist." )

The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.

His was the kind of beauty for which you would pay the price of a lifetime of sorrow and all the varieties of rage. Eventually, you would have to go to church to get rid of him.

randomly around her plate. I said later: at least no ham, no pork, no shrimp mousse, no trayf. But Harry, she said, veal to me is like a frozen scream.

In those days they wanted their money today. Now they want their money yesterday. Half of them today are doing drugs themselves, and it makes them impulsive. It distorts their thinking. More than half of them. Some of the bosses, too. I

One afternoon a bunch of us went downtown to sell our blood for $10 a pint to get some more money to keep drinking shots and beer. On the way back we saw a sign for a carnival. It said that if you could last three rounds with a kangaroo you'd win $100. That was a better deal than the blood money we had just made. So off we went to the carnival. They

I don't care how tough you are or how tough you think you are, if they want you you're theirs. It's usually your best friend that walks up to you talking about a football bet and you're gone. Like Giancana got it frying eggs and sausages in olive oil with an old friend he trusted. This

Dost thou wish me to complete the catalogue by thy death? Thy life is a worthless thing. Tempt me no more. I am but a man, and thy presence may awaken a fury which may spurn my control. Begone!

That night was different... there was something pulling me towards him. Something dark and sexy.

The gambler is a moral suicide.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

Adam betrayed God. Pierre betrayed the god man. (Adam a trahi Dieu. Pierre a trahi l'homme dieu)

But the dog who is rabid is not by bowl attracted. (Mais le chien qui est enragé n'est par gamelle attiré)