Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, digging my nails into my palms, staring at the inside of my eyelids as though I could maybe see through them if I peered hard enough.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

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

Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.

As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.

There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.

Protect me from what I want.

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Men are victims of their own impulses.

We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.

I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

I can resist everything except temptation.

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.

Lust is an appetite that needs to be regulated.

It's not easy not to play.

Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.

We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not.