P. C. Cast Quotes

Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.

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.

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.

I love the idea of playing a good guy who's fighting his own demons.

As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow.

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.

Monsters will always exist. There's one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other.

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

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

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.

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.

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.

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

Do not forget: seek to win all your battles, including those you fight against yourself. Do not fear the scars. Do not be afraid of victory.

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

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

Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn't have to become who we are.

Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

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

Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable beneath that pious rider, and the rider fares no better in the situation, since his endeavor is not only to tame the pig, but also to render it invisible.

Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.