“I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.”– Molly Ivins Related Quotes “The other side of the “sacred” is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.”— Gary Snyder “In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.”– Friedrich Nietzsche “And now I feel like crying, because I really do not understand, and I don’t think I will when I’m older either. It was only when I loved Franz I understood the world, and felt happy. When you love, you’re praying. Everything was quite clear. I wanted to be good. I think you begin things the right way when you want to be good. And I think I’m doing everything wrong now because all I want is for people to be good to me. I want to be loved, everybody wants to be loved; for a thousand people who want to be loved there may perhaps be just one who wants to love. Our Father which art in heaven…my heart is all a lump of grief.”— Irmgard Keun