Terrence Howard Quotes

Humanity has both its beautiful and its ugly sides.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it's clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But I also see a force in human nature, namely grace, that sometimes works against our natural moral entropy.

Human beings are capable of great good, but also of the basest evil.

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

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

We can overcome evil with greater good.

As human beings we're so cynical, so uncompassionate.

I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.

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

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

Not surprisingly, most people feel most beautiful when they are involved in an act of service, or are doing something that makes them feel generous, connected, or seen by others.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

A lot of guys don't want to admit that they have a propensity for generosity and for violence.

Hell is paved with good samaritans.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Personally, I prefer the dark side.

It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.