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“We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.”
― Anatole France

“Who are you then?"
"I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part

“Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be.

Lucifer: That's what desire IS. The need for what we can't have. The need for what's readily available is called greed.”
― Mike Carey, Lucifer, Vol. 11: Evensong

“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.”
― Karl Kraus