Famous quotes containing the words sacred and/or evil:
“The ancients adorned their sarcophagi with the emblems of life and procreation, and even with obscene symbols; in the religions of antiquity the sacred and the obscene often lay very close together. These men knew how to pay homage to death. For death is worthy of homage as the cradle of life, as the womb of palingenesis.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)