#evil

The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#devil #man #life

Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see. To be the playthings of tyrants. But you...you were born to fight tyranny. ↗

— Seth Grahame-Smith

#purpose-of-life #life

He’d never really given religion much thought himself. It was just there, one of the basic fundamentals of life and living; Heaven is generally good and one should aspire to end up there, and Hell is decidedly foul and one should generally direct their enemies there. ↗

— T.A. Miles

#enemies #evil #good #heaven #heaven-and-hell

The world is evil only when you become its slave. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#sin #life

Love permeates all and energizes life. Even evil has love. If not, she is dead. ↗

— Toba Beta

#evil #live #love #life

The capitan...one of those tall, arrogant, acerbically handsome niggers that most of the planet feels inferior to. Also one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#life

Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil. ↗

— Christopher Pike

#love #monsters #vampires #love

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#black #devil #hell #hot #love

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#good-and-evil #love #life

People may be persuaded that the machine is doing good. In fact, good is only capable of being done on a small scale. Evil is more versatile. You can hate those you have never seen, all the vast multitudes of them, but you can only love those you know — and that with difficulty. ↗

— John Christopher

#life #love #quote #life