Celeste Ng Quotes

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good.

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that's another theme that interests me. Because most people don't intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing - in their mind.

I think I wear my hypocrisy on my sleeve. I would never say I'm not a complete hypocrite.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves.

I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.

I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Nobody thinks that they're evil or bad, they think that they're doing the right thing.

There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.