#evil

...That insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#horror #life

I cannot think why we should be astonished at all the evils which exist in the Church, when those who ought to be models on which all may pattern their virtues are annulling the work wrought in the religious Orders by the spirit of the saints of old. ↗

— Teresa of Ávila

#church #evil #life

... true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#good-and-evil #philosophical #sad-but-true #truth #truth-of-life

To do no evil is good, to intend none better. ↗

— Claudius

#evil #good #intend #none

Anna... the night of the summit, when you were saved, it was the only time in my life I've thenked God for anything" Those words. They would melt me over and over for all time ↗

— Wendy Higgins

#kaidan-rowe #sweet-evil #sweet-peril #wendy-higgins #life

Why don’t I have a cool name like that. Instead of Lucifer and Beelzebub. I mean, seriously, Beelzebub? It sounds like the name of a brothel or a low life bar. Why can’t I be Lu Von Cipher? Sounds good, right? ↗

— Cameron Jace

#lucifer #life

War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world into Me or Us (good) and Them or It (bad) and reduce the ethical complexity and moral richness of our life to Yes/No, On/Off. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#ethics #good-and-evil #life #morals #war

People say hell is endless. They say it’s our worst nightmare, the face of our darkness. But whatever it is, however it is, I say hell is empty, and all the devils are here. ↗

— Mark Schwahn

#good #life #soul #life

I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came upon a firefly burning in a spider's web. I saved the victim's life." "The firefly's ?" said the minstrel. "The spider's. The blinking arsonist had set the web on fire. ↗

— James Thurber

#humour #life

You speak as if this is a good world with a little evil in it. Rubbish. It's a hellish one where the best a man can do is put a little sanity back and look after his own. ↗

— David Hewson

#life #self #life