Yann Martel Quotes

the evil thing is inside, not out.

You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

It is in our hearts that evil lies, and it is from our hearts that it must be plucked out.

You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

I like writing about the evil lurking in apparently good people.

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

You know what mom told me once? She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them.

There is evil in all of us, and it is the mark of a man how he defies the evil within.

The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worst part of oneself.

The heart of man is "deceitful and desperately wicked."

There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.

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

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

There is a little bit of evil in all of us, and it's very easy to draw that out.

Let us not become the evil that we deplore.

I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I've accepted it. We're old friends.

She's so small, yet she contains so much evil.

In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.

It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.

If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?

There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.