Max von Sydow Quotes

The better day, the worse deed.

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

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.

Temptation to behave is terrible.

I try not to do bad, but sometimes it's irresistible.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

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

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

We are never like angels till our passion dies.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

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.

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

We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

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.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? 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.

Then I proceeded to Williamsburg, where I found all well. I went to the capitol where I sent for the wench to clean my room and when I came I kissed her and felt her, for which God forgive me.... About 10 o’clock I went to my lodgings. I had good health but wicked thoughts, God forgive me.

To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

Good people struggle against what's imperfect about them. The people that we call 'bad' people embrace that kind of stuff, embrace the darker side.

Evil has always been here since the world began. Good is what is difficult. It is a work of every day.

Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.