Nature Of Evil Quotes

“Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless that, in the blackness, all one could make out were the contours of despair.”
― Laura Tillman, The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City

“Have you ever wronged a man . . . just to do him harm? Or have you always had a reason?’

Kaspar answered quickly. ‘There was always a reason.’

‘There you have it,’ said Samas as he sat down. He motioned for Kaspar to fetch over a cup of water for him. ‘You would never look at yourself as “evil” no matter what the other fellow thought of what you did. It’s in our nature. And that’s the great secret of evil. It is never viewed as evil by those who perpetrate the evil.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Exile's Return

“ “They were all children, yes, as were the fiends who allowed themselves to be Hosted.”
 “But that happened in a wilder age, a less enlightened time,” Roger argued.
 “Do not make the mistake of thinking present society is so highly advanced that they have forgotten their baser instincts, Roger Knightley. Evil is evil no matter the century, or the world.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Deadmarsh Fey