“I lived in misery, like every man whose soul is tethered by the love of things that cannot last and then is agonized to lose them.”
More from Augustine of Hippo
“My heart grew sombre with grief, and wherever I looked I saw only death. My own country…”
“The evil in me was foul, but I loved it. I loved my own perdition and my own faults, not…”
“If babies are innocent, it is not for lack of will to do harm, but for lack of strength.”
“I did not know that evil is nothing but the removal of good until finally no good remains.”