Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation ~ Mason Cooley Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all; ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all … Continue reading
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us ~ Peter De Vries In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision ~ Italo Calvino Lying dreamy in the midst of silken cushions and … Continue reading
To greed, all nature is insufficient ~ Seneca He who is greedy is always in want ~ Horace She lay, glistening white, on our marriage bed. Eyed me as I moved, dark with lust, distraught at not knowing how to … Continue reading
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. ~ Horace Out of passions grow opinions; mental sloth lets these rigidify into convictions ~ Friedrich Nietzsche Under the slow sun, fresh breezes from the river kept us cool. We lay … Continue reading
Heav’n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn’d, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn’d ~ William Congreve The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves ~ John … Continue reading
Envy eats nothing but its own heart ~ Proverb Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. ~ Josh Billings His bedsprings creaked in that all too familiar rhythm. I groaned, turning onto my back. Inches from sleep, inches … Continue reading
“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.” ~ St Augustine “Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.” ~ Benjamin Franklin Pride comes before a fall. She rolled … Continue reading
