We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.
What is it about women that they just go right for the guy that totally repulses them?
Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.
In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods that were almost always fattening.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.
I've never had a mental break-down, where I've grappled with my own sense of religion, but I've definitely had my heart broken and fancied people I probably shouldn't have fancied and all that stuff.
This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.
Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
Why is it that the nicest things never are healthy?
Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.