Humanity is a tapestry woven with threads of light and shadow. Within us lies a capacity for both extraordinary kindness and profound cruelty. As Joseph Conrad wrote, “The darkness is only in the mind and the will can be darkened too.” We are capable of heights of compassion and depths of depravity. It is in acknowledging these shadows that we begin to understand the complexities of the human experience.
Quotes About The Dark Side Of Human Nature
1. “The dark side of human nature is like a shadow that follows us wherever we go.”
— Unknown
2. “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
— Charles Baudelaire
3. “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
— Albert Camus
4. “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.”
— Dante Alighieri
5. “All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”
— James Thurber
6. “The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
7. “The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
— Albert Camus
8. “There is nothing in the world more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
9. “The shadow is what we deny in ourselves, but it is what makes us whole.”
— Carl Jung
10. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
— Charles Darwin
11. “Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.”
— Laurens van der Post
12. “We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
— Samuel Beckett
13. “The cruelty of man is like a shadow that grows longer as the day goes on.”
— Unknown
14. “The darkness in man’s soul can often be more terrifying than any physical threat.”
— Unknown
15. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin