Uncontrolled Desires Quotes

Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.

… being a man of loose morals and intemperate habits

Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are not unrelated to these three things.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, from pole to pole With ego as his drunken captain Greed, the mutineer, had trapped all reason in the hold

When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.

People have always been animals when it comes to sex. But since the Internet, it's become really out of control, in my opinion.

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

There is still a wildness inside people that we've spent millennia trying to tame.

We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right on burning. Our tastes were acquired on credit, and we wanted to keep on enjoying 'em on credit.