“My sin was this, that I looked for pleasure, beauty, and truth not in God but in myself and his other creatures, and the search led me instead to pain, confusion, and error.”
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.”