Banality Quote by Thrity Umrigar

She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Perhaps to bring good into the world, she needed to mix a little evil in it first.”

— A.J. Flowers

“She had thought once that there were good people and bad people, that there was a side of light and a side of darkness,…

— Cassandra Clare

But she wondered why beautiful things had to be wrapped up with evil history. Or was it the other way around? Maybe the evil…

— Rick Riordan

“She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition.”

— Gilbert Parker

“everyone has a capacity for evil. And we’ve all seen it, and done it, even if we think we haven’t—there’s the slight in conversation…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“Places, she told herself, were not evil: they were what people made of them.”

— Kim Newman

Good and evil, as we term them, are not antagonistic; they are ever found hand in hand. Humanity has never achieved a single conquest…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

“She’d become desensitized in order to deal with very visual depictions of evil manifested in man’s inhumanity to man.”

— Robert Dugoni

“She had a keen sense of revenge, that knew no limits. When crossed she retaliated with devastating force. Her intelligence made it all the…

— Torey L. Hayden

“She alone was left standing, amid the accumulated riches of her mansion, while a host of men lay stricken at her feet. Like those…

— Emile Zola

The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez