Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown.

I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.

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

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

It's almost as if we each have a vampire inside us. Controlling that beast, that dark side, is what fascinates me.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any of our heroes. Every antagonist in the DC Universe has a unique darkness, desire and drive. And the reason for being of 'Forever Evil' is to explore that darkness.

Buddha, much like everyone else has good and bad days.

The thing is, I never see my characters as psychopaths. I see them as really crippled victims who just happen to do bad things. And I never see them as bad guys; I see them as darker characters. I never see anything as good or bad; it's more light or dark, and the in-between is the grey.

Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line or thought more inspires or informs my work.

They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect That no one will need to be good.

History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long.

What would Chaucer have written about if men were perfect?

I like writing about the evil lurking in apparently good people.

Everybody has a dark side. It's just we are very in touch with it.

Good people struggle against what's imperfect about them. The people that we call 'bad' people embrace that kind of stuff, embrace the darker side.

I'm interested in people's darkness - and humor in the darkness.

We are perfect. According to God, we are perfect, yet we know that we are sinners. We believe in the fact that we are both saints and sinners at the same time as we live in this world.