Evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the smal… - Yann Martel

For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity — it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.

There people fail to realise that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. - Pi Patel in Life of Pi

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.