#badness

Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst. ↗

— Francis H. Bradley

#goodness #life #life

I decide a book is bad if I get angrier and angrier as I read it. ↗

— Daniel T. O'Hara

#badness #books #reading #anger

The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen sheet. The difference between my sins and your sins is that when I sin I know I'm sinning while you have actually fallen prey to your own fabricated illusions. I am a siren, a mermaid; I know that I am beautiful while basking on the ocean's waves and I know that I can eat flesh and bones at the bottom of the sea. You are a white witch, a wizard; your spells are manipulations and your cauldron from hell yet you wrap yourself in white and wear a silver wig. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#fake #genuine #genuineness #goodness #hypocrisy

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it. ↗

— Hesiod

#close #easily #excellence #front #get

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother. ↗

— Plautus

#best #brother #comparative #know #only

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#condition #consent #contemplation #cruel #cruelty

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness? ↗

— Nick Hornby

#becomes #cope #good #how #our