C. S. Lewis Quotes

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

Protect me from what I want.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

We are never like angels till our passion dies.

Men are victims of their own impulses.

I spent a long part of my childhood repressing my more animalistic desire systems, and in a way, it permits me to do some of the stuff that I would want to be doing in a way that's more comfortable and doesn't break my internal rules. It expands the realm of possibility.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

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

You know what, life is full of temptations.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

I like working emotions that can take you beyond your life. And yet you have to resist them in order remain within your life. Otherwise, you're burned. I like that fight. It's more of a fight with yourself.

I have tried to be that player who plays within himself, but I just can't do that.

My whole life, I've been a Temptation.

It's a lot easier knowing you can't do something than knowing you shouldn't.

In sex, man is driven into the very abyss which he flees. He makes a voyage to non-being and back.

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

The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt.

Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.

Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.

So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence, they will prevail against your soul.

I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path.