Samuel Johnson Quotes

It is impossible for good or evil to last forever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted so long, the good must be now nigh at hand.

Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Fear comes not from God but from the evil one.

Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!

Everyone loves a good baddie.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

Appearances frequently deceive us, and what at first sight carries with it the face of good proves to be a real evil, whilst an apparent evil oftentimes conceals an extraordinary good

Conviction was not, courage failed, and truth was something to be doubted of.

One of my main intentions was to destroy the legend of the greatness of evil, of the demonic force.

Whether or not the devil is really good or evil is something that we don't really know.

These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.

Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen.” - Carter to Georgina

For a while Bastian stood motionless. He was so stunned by what he had just heard that he couldn't decide what to do... What he had hoped was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

As the greatest liar tells more truths than falsehoods, so may it be said of the worst man, that he does more good than evil.

Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

Every act has both good and evil results. The best we can do is lean to the light.

Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.

There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.