Quotes About Evil

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

When it came to the dark fuckery of the human heart, there seemed to be no limit.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

The monster nevers dies.

They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.

If a man dethrones God in his heart, Satan must ascend to His position.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a tremendous cost.

As I said at the beginning, this is a horror story.

I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling.

There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number.

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it's so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

The town cares for devil's work no more than it cares for God's or man's. It knew darkness. And darkness was enough.

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

Every man or woman who loves [God], they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God, He Is, what He Is, and in this world He's apt to repay service with pain while those who do evil ride over the roads in Cadillac cars. Even the joy of serving Him is a bitter joy.

And fire was evil stuff that delighted in escaping the hands which created it.

I remember something my mother used to say. The Devil can quote scripture

He wanted what evil men always want: to have power and use that power to make mischief.

Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you.

I think there's always a reason for love, but sometimes hate just is. A kind of free-floating evil.

If we have free will, then you have to invite evil in.

There is no life here but the slow death of days, and so when the evil falls on the town, its coming seems almost preordained, sweet and morphic. It is almost as though the town knows the evil was coming and the shape it would take.

The devil was unpredictable. He had been an angel once.

She said there are evil men in the world, truly evil men. Sometimes we hear of them, but more often they work in absolute darkness.

I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is more unsettling.