Friedrich Schiller Quotes

In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.

Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you

It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be Our chastisement or recompense.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

I want karma to drive stakes into the dark hearts that keep me bitter.

Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

Evil gains work their punishment.

The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

You know the Scripture says "be not deceived for God is not mocked; whatsoever a man sow that shall he also reap." And one day, I don't know how they're going to get it, but they're going to get some of it back. They are scared to death and are more afraid now than we are.

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

... No one "gets away" with evil. Judgment always comes, only the timing is uncertain.

I did some things to some people that was downright evil. Is it karma coming back to me - so much drama.

O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.

I guess karma comes back around 'cause now I'm the one that's hurting

And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.

The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition enjoy their own acts of beneficence equally with those to whom they are done, so there are scarce any natures so entirely diabolical as to be capable of doing injuries without paying themselves some pangs for the ruin which they bring on their fellow-creatures.

Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.

Neither in the sky nor in mid-ocean, nor by entering into mountain clefts, nowhere in the world is there a place where one may escape from the results of evil deeds.

In harvesting of evil deeds, the human race is busy; and doing so is to taste the pangs of Hell . . . The piling up of wealth is the piling up of others' property; what one thus storeth formeth but provisions for one's enemies... I wash off human scandal by devotion true; and by my zeal, I satisfy the Deities. By compassion, I subdue the demons; all blame I scatter to the wind, and upward turn my face.

Somebody has been a complete ratbag all their life and they've gotten away with it, and they die happy and rich, we so much want to believe that they're going off to the halls of judgment, that their heart will be weighed against the feather of truth, that it will be heavy with sin and it will be eaten by a crocodile. It's almost essential to our well-being to have a fallback position like that. It may appear as if you've gotten away with it, but you'll pay for it later.