Quotes About Consequences

The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

You killed them, Reuben. You killed them in their sins! You terminated their destiny on this earth. You snatched from them any chance for repentance, for redemption. You took that from them. You took it all, Reuben. You snuffed out forever the years of reparation they might have lived! You took life itself from them and you took it from their descendants, and yes, even from their victims, you took what their amends might have been.

be careful what you wish for; your wish might come true.

And how is evil achieved? He asked. How does one fall from grace and become in one instant as evil as the mob tribunal of the revolution or the most cruel of the Roman emperors? Does one merely have to miss mass on Sunday or bite down on the communion host? Or steal a loaf of bread...or sleep with a neighbor's wife.

The men deserve what will happen to them. As a species, they will reap what they have sown.

El conflicto estalla entre la moral del artista y la moral de la sociedad, no entre la estética y la moral. Pero a menudo esto no es comprendido; y entonces aparece la pérdida, la tragedia. Un artista que roba pinturas de una tienda, por ejemplo, se imagina haber tomado una decisión inevitable pero inmortal y luego se ve a sí mismo como caído en desgracia

An artist, stealing paints from a store, for example, imagines himself to have made an inevitable but immoral decision, and then he sees himself as fallen from grace; what follows is despair and petty irresponsibility, as if morality were a great glass world which can be utterly shattered by one act.

I had robbed myself of my own Child of the Blood by my splendid designs.

Don't fight with Mael. What could be the outcome, but two wounded creatures hating each other even more than now?

Cowards can be more dangerous than brave men, Julie," he said.

You dared to publish a chronicle using the name Merrick Mayfair. You dared to do this even though a great family by the name of Mayfair lives in this city and its environs to this day. You had no care when you did that.

What are we that we can make such great blunders without the slightest realization of what we are doing? What is man that he is so mindful of himself and knows so little of the consequences of what he does!

De ce te face asta la fel de rau ca oricare vampir? Nu exista gradatii ale raului? E raul cumva o prapastie periculoasa in care cadem dupa primul pacat, prabusindu-ne in adancuri?

That incorrigible Quinn. He went deep into Sugar Devil Swamp, though everybody told him not to; he went to that accursed island Hermitage, and one night he just didn't come back.

is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

Such vows . . . strike one with a sort of horror at what happened afterwards.

Many people shared the view expressed by the diarist Samuel Pepys 'that he that doth get a wench with child and marries her afterward, it is as if a man should shit in his hat and then clap it upon his head'.2

She felt guilty about Derek's death, too, because she should have known better than to bring up the sensitive subject of Ian while Derek was driving.

Freedom has a way of destroying things.

The whole idea that he could take what he wanted without affecting anyone was bull****.

Be careful with the world , or the next time we meet, it might get ugly.

And a month later all these guys are going 'I don't know why I don't feel very good', and I'm going 'You wanna know why you don't feel very good? I'll tell you why—because you've done nothing else for weeks but lie on the floor and smoke and take my money'. I was making 50 dollars a week cleaning for the guy who did our albums.