Benefits Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

— George Orwell

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

— Simone Weil

“The object of all good literature is to purge the soul of its petty troubles.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least…

— Flannery O'Connor

“After misery follow, or are at least promised to in the unwritten manuscripts of Gods, great things. Sometimes, that great thing can be death.”

— Nina

“...our literature has fallen upon evil days...Read the latest book. What do you find? Simple anecdotes: murder, suicide and accident stories copied right out…

— J.K. Huysmans

For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us,…

— Albert Camus

“The novel used to feed our search for meaning. Quoting Bill. It was the great secular transcendence. The Latin mass of language, character, occasional…

— Don DeLillo

“Evil can be destroyed in either direction. Some are meant to be cast down. Others rise, but their elevation is meant to bring about…

— Benjamin Blech

“Unfortunately, evil will never be wholly defeated.Mankind is faced with a continual struggle against evil. We believe that this is where the meaning of…

— Alija Izetbegović