John Connolly Quotes

People are not born evil, although we all have evil within us.

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

There aren't demons flying around with horns, people are demons.

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.

One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an ability to abandon one's morality. We simply cannot be good writers and good people. One must be able to access one's darkest self, one's venality and pettiness and murderousness.

Personally, I prefer the dark side.

Evil changes everybody!

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

We are all born marked for evil.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

The most wicked thing that the dark side of human nature has ever come up with.

About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.

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

Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.

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

The heart of man is "deceitful and desperately wicked."

It is in our hearts that evil lies, and it is from our hearts that it must be plucked out.

all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.

The devil is not abroad at night in the form of a cat or a wolf or any other animal. He lives eternally in the hearts of men.

She's so small, yet she contains so much evil.