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

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

— George Orwell

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

I think that one of the compelling themes of fiction is this confrontation between good and evil.

— William Styron

“we must try to do justice to the three categories of literature – apocalypse, prophecy and letter – into which Revelation seems to fall.”

— Richard Bauckham

The Book of Revelation is all about the conflict, the contest between the forces of Good and Evil.

— Elaine Pagels

“Is it surprising that the people could see their fate and that of the world only as an endless succession of evils? Bad governance,…

— Johan Huizinga

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

— Simone Weil

“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

We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy…

— Joseph Addison

“One intriguing way to enter into the battle between good and evil, life and death, sanity and madness, is in the pages of fiction.”

— Robert Poe

“...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