Love Makes You Evil/Quotes

"Someone told me
Love would all save us

But, how can that be

Look what love gave us

A world full of killing

And blood spilling

That world never came"

—Chad Kroeger and Josey Scott, "Hero"

People can never understand one another, Shinji. Never completely. Never enough.

—Gendo Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion

"I'll kill them all to save my own."

—10th Man Down, Nightwish

Love is suspicious, love is needy, love is fearful, love is greedy, there is no great love without great jealousy.

—Bender, Futurama

"I am not a villain! All I wanted... was love."

—Plasmius, Danny Phantom

The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust;
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight;
Past reason hunted; and no sooner had,
Past reason hated, as a swallowed bait,
On purpose laid to make the taker mad:
Mad in pursuit, and in possession so;
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe;
Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.
All this the world well knows; yet none knows well

To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.
—William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 129"

"There isn't a little boy born who wouldn't tear the world apart to save his mummy. And this little boy can."

—The Ninth Doctor, Doctor Who

"I'll kill the King, Ned Stark, the whole bloody lot of them until you and I are the only people left in this world."

—Jamie Lannister to his sister Cersei, Game of Thrones

Oh, what an evil power love has in people's lives!

—Medea, Medea

"It is in the grandeur of Eros that the seeds of danger are concealed...For Eros, speaking with that very grandeur and displaying that very transcendence of self, may urge to evil as well as to good...The love which leads to cruel and perjured unions, even to suicide-pacts and murder, is not likely to be wandering lust or idle sentiment. It may well be Eros in all his splendour: heart-breakingly sincere; ready for every sacrifice except renunciation."

—CS Lewis, The Four Loves

"It's our oldest, deadliest impulse, the need to protect our own at the expense of any other living thing. And we give that impulse such a nice name, don't we? Hyde... is Love - and Love is a psychopath."

—Jekyll