“Evil sometimes seems good
To a man whose mind
A god leads to destruction.”
Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian
Source: Antigone, Lines 620-3
“He had never felt entirely comfortable around Raphael. Raphael seemed to him like Loki or some other trickster God, sometimes working for good and sometimes for evil, but always in his own interests.”
— Cassandra Clare, book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
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Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
Can a Doctor Be a Humanist? (1984).
Context: "To which god must I sacrifice in order to heal?" To which of the warring serpents should I turn with the problem that now faces me?
It is easy, and tempting, to choose the god of Science. Now I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is its symbol. It is a powerful god indeed but it is what the students of ancient gods called a shape-shifter, and sometimes a trickster.
Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist
Cults, Sects and Questions (c. 1979)
Richard Cecil (clergyman) (1748–1810) British Evangelical Anglican priest and social reformer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 264.
“I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.”
Charles Bukowski book Women
Variant: being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
Source: Women
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
Summations, Chapter 52
Context: In our intent we abide in God, and faithfully trust to have mercy and grace; and this is His own working in us. And of His goodness He openeth the eye of our understanding, by which we have sight, sometime more and sometime less, according as God giveth ability to receive. And now we are raised into the one, and now we are suffered to fall into the other.
And thus is this medley so marvellous in us that scarsely we know of our self or of our even-Christian in what way we stand, for the marvellousness of this sundry feeling.
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Four: The Beauty of the Heavens
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Quoted in: Peter Erskine, Rick Mattingly (1998), Drum Perspective, p. 73.
Alternative forms:
"At eight, I was Raphael", he used to say. "It took me a whole lifetime to paint like a child"
From Picasso, my grandfather, Marina Picasso (2001).
Attributed from posthumous publications
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
Post-Presidency, Nobel lecture (2002)
Source: The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture