Quotes About Temptation

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation… either because I enjoy the prospect or because I'm not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of possession, but simply by unadorned temptation itself.

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

I have no desire to go anywhere near drugs. People say, "Aren't you tempted?" No, because of the ridiculousness of it.

Do not desire your neighbor's wife in vain.

Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

Night can't cloak your scarlet dream. Accept Desire's call.

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.