Quotes About Temptation

and i wouldn't say no to something sweet.

I wanted to save myself from that drug that contaminates the body and veins and not from the other drug, you know that drug that enters through your eyes and your private area, the one that settles into your heart to screw it up, that damn drug that naive people call love. The stupid drug that's just as dangerous and deadly as the one that you find on the streets wrapped up in little packages.

Quería salvarme de la droga que contamina el cuerpo y las venas y no de la otra, la que entra por debajo y por los ojos, la que se enquista en el corazón y lo corroe, la maldita droga que los más ingenuos llaman amor, pero que es tan nociva y mortal como la que se consigue en las calles envuelta en paqueticos.

Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, "What a pity I can't buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.

He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.

The ascetic, for the greater glory of God, degrades and mortifies the flesh; Judas did the same with the spirit. He renounced honor, good, peace, the Kingdom of Heaven, as others, less heroically, renounced pleasure.

Yo había comprendido hace muchos años que no hay cosa en el mundo que no sea germen de un Infierno posible: un rostro, una palabra, una brújula, un aviso de cigarrillos, podrían enloquecer a una persona, si ésta no lograra olvidarlos.

Mir Bahadur Alí, lo hemos visto, es incapaz de soslayar la más burda de las tentaciones del arte: la de ser un genio.

The One Forbidden Thing. Remember Bluebeard, who says to his wife, "Don't open that closet"? And then one always disobeys. In the Old Testament story God points out the one forbidden thing. Now, God must have known very well that man was going to eat the forbidden fruit. But it was by doing that that man became the initiator of his own life. Life really began with that act of disobedience.

And then they eat the apple, the knowledge of the opposites.

In the Old Testament story God points out the one forbidden thing. Now, God must have known very well that man was going to eat the forbidden fruit. But it was by doing that that man became the initiator of his own life. Life really began with that act of disobedience.

The passage to fulfillment lies between the perils of desire and fear.

She wore a pleated skirt, a white cotton blouse, and simple black shoes with knee high stockings. At the arc of each step, the skirt would rise to expose a few inches of her taut thighs. Neither Earl nor Duke could recall what Chad was wearing.

There is nothing more dangerous than a lengthy cocktail hour.

He could see the honey, he could smell the honey, but he couldn't quite reach the honey.

it all comes of liking honey so much.

The comforter on this bed was a dark burgundy and Jenise's lighter toned skin was enticing against it.

Tu afán traiciona tu pátina de sombría paciencia. Tu deseo se despliega con una suave caricia.

Turn away, if you can. Return you will with hunger peaked and primed.

It must be pleasant to be occasionally guilty of a small abomination.

Les théâtres, les jeux, les farces, les spectacles, les gladiateurs, les bêtes étranges, les médailles, les tableaux et autres telles drogueries, c'étaient aux peuples anciens les appâts de la servitude, le prix de leur liberté, les outils de la tyrannie.

On our way home we throw the apples, the biscuits, the chocolate and the coins in the tall grass by the roadside. It is impossible to throw away the stroking on our hair

Don't tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing.

He reached his hands toward the door and I figured what the hell. I'd never been in a silo before, and while that's not exactly bucket-list worthy, it's something to do when you're with a boy who intrigues you, scares you, and turns you on in equal measure.