Dylan Thomas Quotes

The spirits, they intoxicate me. I watched them infiltrate my soul. They try to say it's too late for me. Once I was promised absolution, there's only one solution for my sins. And I blame this world, for making a good man evil. Now I ain't getting into heaven, if the devil has his way.

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me.

The devil on my right shoulder must have brutally strangled the angel on my left.

Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it.

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

The better day, the worse deed.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

Everybody has a sinful nature pulling them at every turn.

Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness: Satan, the world system, and our own lustful "flesh" tendencies.

She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell. Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it. And it's delicious.

I may not be the devil, but I know just how he feels.

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

The opposite of love? Vice. Temptation. The negative influences that we have. The bad energy that comes around us and makes us do certain things. To me, it's always been a war between the two.