Quotes About Temptation

C'est que le Diable est bien malin; c'est qu'il n'est pas toujours si laid qu'on le dit.

Oh poder de las lágrimas, sin duda el más poderoso de todos los rasgos del amor! Mis desconfianzas, mis resoluciones, mis juramentos, todo queda olvidado. Queriendo secar el manantial de aquel precioso rocío, me había acercado demasiado a aquella boca donde la frescura se unía al dulce perfume de la rosa; y, aunque quiero alejarme, dos brazos, cuya blancura, suavidad y forma no sabría describir, actúan como lazos de los que no me puedo desprender.

The old dream that has tempted man from the beginning, the medieval legend of the man who sells his soul for an inexhaustible purse, which recurs with an enticing insistence through all the changes of civilization, is perhaps in process of being realized, and not a for a single man but all.

Çünkü günah kanun olmadan yaÅŸayamaz. Bir zamanlar kanun yoktu ve ben hayattayd?m, ama sonra buyruk gelince günah dirildi ve ben öldüm. Ve gördüm ki hayat getirmesi gereken buyruk, ölüm getirdi. Çünkü buyruktan f?rsat bulan günah beni kand?rd?, ve böylece beni öldürdü. [Romans, 7:7-11]

Alors les coudes sur la sainte table le Diable regarde Dieu en face avec un sourire de côté et il fait du pied aux anges et Dieu est bien embêté.

Mientras no haya superado el gusto al placer, seré sensible al vértigo del suicidio.

In response to a tactless question he once said to me, 'What do you expect? This lousy neighbourhood gave me the come-on. I couldn't resist.

Que a pesar de todos mis esfuerzos soy incapaz de borrarte de mi mente. Y que a pesar de que mi buen juicio me grita que es un error, quiero sentir la magia de tus besos una y otra vez. Tanto que me asusta.

She'd looked so beautiful standing there, gazing out to sea. Crimson had once told him a tale about Sirens, magical creatures that lived on an island. Their songs lured mariners to their destruction – their ships were destroyed by the rocks surrounding the island. And even knowing that death awaited them, they couldn't resist the lure of the Sirens' song.

They are certain old qualities and flavors within you. However much you may try to pretend that you're a very nice and loving person, when deals are offered, suddenly old vasanas will take control of you. There's an urge to bite the deal.

At the door I planted a kiss on Paul's mouth with an uncontrollable ardor that I actually did feel-a kiss of treachery, for I could still taste the other man in my mouth.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

So is a murder rose until you decide to hold the blossom in your hand and sniff it. Perfectly inviting and even charming until the poisons burn your skull open." "By the gods, man, where do you hear about these things?

Sin so bewitches the soul that it makes the soul call evil good and good evil; bitter sweet and sweet bitter, light darkness and darkness light.

Without temptation the soul cannot grow.

The source and cause of all temptation is in the inward desire; that being purified or eliminated, outward objects and extraneous powers are utterly powerless to move the soul to sin or to temptation.

As a man purifies his heart, temptation ceases, for when a certain unlawful desire has been taken out of the heart, the object which formerly appealed to it can no longer do so, but becomes dead and powerless, for there is nothing left in the heart that can respond to it.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didnt have it and thought of other things if you did.

You see, Satan is not a monster. We don't see him when he comes because he has disguised himself in beauty. The devil is, after all, an angel of light. The Morning Star. Do not allow yourself to be seduced by the beautiful side of evil.

Sex without sin is like an egg without salt.

Eroticism is a diabolic pleasure that is related to death and rotting flesh.

Si tuviera que enumerar todas las virtudes del alcohol, no acabaría nunca.

La memoria es invadida constantemente por la imaginación y el ensueño, y puesto que existe la tentación de creer en la realidad de lo imaginario, acabamos por hacer una verdad de nuestra mentira.

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't...