#evil

And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually... it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life... every second of it... Is all we have. ↗

— Anne Rice

#life

And of the Witch? In the life of a Witch, there is no "after", in the "ever after" of a Witch there is no "happily"; in the story of a Witch, there is no afterword. Of that part that is beyond the life story, beyond the story of the life, there is-alas, or perhaps thank mercy-no telling. She was dead, dead, and gone, and all that was left of her was the carapace of her reputation for malice. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#malice #misdirection #wicked #wicked-witch-of-the-west #life

I'm half good and I'm half bad. My mama is a very good girl and my daddy is a very bad boy. And I guess that leaves me somewhere sort of...here. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#bad-boys #good #good-and-evil #humor #humorous-quotations

Hell is paved with good intentions. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#good-intentions #hell #intentions #life

Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin. ↗

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

#god #mysticism #occultism #positivism #religion

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself. ↗

— Teresa of Ávila

#evil #fear #life

Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life

Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one's life," Asher said. "A day is made of a thousand decisions, most small, some huge. With each decision you have the chance to work toward light, or sink toward darkness. ↗

— Cate Tiernan

#good #goodness #life

This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#good #good-and-evil #life #life

Elaine: He saved my life twice. He's the only grown-up I know who keeps his promises. Michael: Yes. It is a point of pride with him. But please — don't mistake it for a virtue. ↗

— Mike Carey

#pride #virtue #life