Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

Sin and the devil will always find helpers in our hearts.

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.

I think we all have the capacity of evil in us.

Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.

You get into moods - like, if somebody does something to you, then you're angry for maybe 30 seconds, or maybe 30 years. I was always interested in capturing those awful, unflattering things that everybody goes through - those hot moments, captured in ice.

We are never like angels till our passion dies.

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

I definitely have a dark side of me that can be pretty vicious... as we all do.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

There is no man who does not sin.

We may live like saints, but when it comes to our fantasy life, everybody's got a little larceny in their soul.

Everyone has monsters and demons within themselves. They're metaphors for the human condition.

If you've raged, if you've mistreated somebody, if you've ever thought only about yourself - these are things that all human beings struggle with and judge themselves for.

No one is above temptation. No one is above life in general.

Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.

People are not born evil, although we all have evil within us.

There aren't demons flying around with horns, people are demons.

The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.

Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.