#sins

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#envy #i #insidious #may #most

In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the flesh– whatever pleasures we know are doomed to perish– thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

#beksinski #painting #art

I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony. ↗

— Jenny Colgan

#chick-lit #gluttony #humor #humour #seven-deadly-sins

There's nothing depraved about sex. Of course with a little creativity, some toys and a whole lot of dirty talk, you can change that. ↗

— Suzanne Wright

#change

No!" He recoiled. "You and I are finished." "Son..." I started. But he rounded on me. "Do you think me so soft that calling me son might change my mind? How long did you sit on this information? Or am I to believe you only discovered it now? My mother's blood may stain another's hands, but Charles Lee is no less a monster, and all he does, he does by your command. ↗

— Oliver Bowden

#change

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself. ↗

— J.A. Froude

#death

The world doesn't need to be fixed,it only needs to be balanced.And the art of balance demands you tread lightly,not leap ahead in a continual frenzy.The art of balance demands you know your designated role in the game of life,not start muscling in on everyone else's.The art of balance demands knowledge of timelessness,of birth and death and rebirth.The art of balance demands you know the world cannot be fixed it must be endured. It must simply forever be kept in a splendid play. ↗

— Tarun J. Tejpal

#art

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#always #extraordinary #graces #punishment #sins

I am ready. I have repented my sins and soon I will be in heaven with Christ my savior. Now I must die like a man. ↗

— Charles Portis

#diet #heaven #repent #sins #diet

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#abused #abused-women #anger #crime #crime-fiction