3,115 Quotes About Evil

Everybody is aware of physical and emotional pain, but that doesn't stop some people from inflicting it on others.

There was nothing that fascinated the public quite like a beautiful man with an ugly soul.

And it was to the bottom that the vessel now plunged, into the waters that were blacker than any black on land, into a gloom that was more consuming than the deepest night. Were the crew not focused on their frenzied work to stop the steep descent, they might've glanced out one of the many round windows, and they might've thought that they were looking into the black iris of an evil creature—and they might've been right.

All pleasure lies in evil. But all pain lies in good.

Are you the devil?" Yoth Begail whispered. "Am I the devil?

If God is benevolent and almighty, why should there be so much suffering in the world? Luria's answer was that the forces that cause suffering and evil in the world are remnants of the universe before ours- a primal cosmos of unbalanced forces- and the mission of human beings, and Jews in particular, is to redeem the powers of evil through religious observance and Cabalistic disciplines.

Evil acts make me hard – I find in evil a charm piquant enough to awaken every sensation of pleasure in me, and I give myself to evil for evil alone, and without any other interest than evil alone.

Evil exists... Doesn’t mean God doesn’t

Only by contact with evil could I have learned to feel by contrast the beauty of truth and love and goodness.