Louis Aragon Quotes

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart – and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains…an unuprooted small corner of evil. Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.

If this isn’t good versus evil, what is?

If an evil spirit had to hide from God, it would hide in a diamond. If an angel had to hide from the Devil, it would hide in rose quartz.

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.

Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just wanna trip on Grace Juice, Baby Showdown at midnight

Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.

Evil to some is always good to others

I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask.

She's a devil, she's an angel, she's a woman, she's a child. She's a heartache when she leaves you, but she'll leave you with a smile.

Within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals.

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

It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leporous.