sin Quotes

“All sinners would be miserable in heaven.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

topic:sin misery heaven

“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”

― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

topic:humanity sin

“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

topic:happiness boredom sin

“Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:sin vanity

“Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

topic:sin

“Anything that's mended is but patched; virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin, and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.”

― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

topic:change virtue sin

“There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

topic:justice sin

“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”

― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

topic:virtue money sin

“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts”

― C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

topic:sin hell

“'How do you take your coffee?' 'Dark as night, sweet as sin.'”

― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

topic:darkness sin

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