Evil Quote by Jonathan Swift

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

— John Ruskin

“Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them.”

— John Ruskin

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”…

— Mar Preston

“I had to bear the sunken glare of his fierce crow-footed eyes if I wanted to know; and so I bore it, reflecting how…

— Joseph Conrad

There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real…

— Benjamin

Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.

— Anonymous

Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

— Simone Weil

“What does it take for a person to be able to recognize evil as it unfolds? To see with foresight and acuity .”

— Jessica Shattuck

“Look upon men and things with the inner eye, with its form and desire, never forgetting that the shadow they throw as they pass…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“In these rooms, the world’s vast hissing tangle of shadows burns away, all its treacherous grays are honed to the stark purity of a…

— Tana French

“Evil is visible, it burns, it smugly displays itself for all to see.”

— Irène Némirovsky