#evil

When he comes to the door he always looks mocking and half-way angry. You can see he has sympathy for nothing. It's written on his forehead that he can love no one. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#faust #faustian-legend #faustus #love

Thy love wakes thirst for Heaven in one and all: Leper, pimp, outcast, fool and criminal, Satan, O pity my long wretchedness! ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#the-flowers-of-evil #the-litanies-of-satan #love

I loved his enormous aptitude for compassion, adoration and respect. That was his way of showing love. He lacked the capacity for wickedness, and that caressed my belief that he might just be an angel. My angel. ↗

— S.G. Holster

#good-vs-evil #new #paranormal-urban-fantasy-romance #teen #young-adult-romance

I turn around from the window and for the first time I see him... It is Richard, smiling at my surprise. I run to him, without thinking what I am doing. I run to the first friendly face that I have seen since Christmas, and in a moment I am in his arms and he is holding me tightly and kissing my face, my closed eyes, my smiling mouth, kissing me till I am breathless and have to pull away from him. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#edward-iii #love #reunion #love

For great changes in the human mind are terrible. As we realize them we realize the limitless possibilities of sinister deeds that lie hidden in every human being. A little child that loves a doll can become an old, crafty, secret murderer. How horrible! And perhaps it is still more horrible to think that, while the human envelope remains totally unchanged, every word of the letter within may become altered, and a message of peace fade into a sentence of death. ↗

— Robert Smythe Hichens

#humanity #mind #change

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it? ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#good #religion #science #inspirational

I have zero respect for knowledge, that’s what computers are for. Imagination is the kicker because imagination can extrapolate, create and solve, Knowledge is just facts and shit. Mostly irrelevant.” Kego O'Grady in The Navigator By Steve Merrick ↗

— Steve Merrick

#sci-fi #science-fiction #steve-merrick #stevesevilempire #the-navigator

The greatest evil is physical pain. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#greatest #pain #physical #physical pain

A skeptical man with a credo, 'Seeing is believing'. One day he found something so alien and said, 'I can't believe what I just saw'. Then the other man with different credo, 'Blessed are they who believe without seeing'. One day he found something so alien and said, 'This is blasphemy, sinful and evil'. ↗

— Toba Beta

#believing #blasphemy #credo #evil #life

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#avoided #devotes #evil #happens #himself