Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good willmy soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.( It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery.)
The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
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Bill Hicks
Let this hell be our heaven.
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Richard Matheson
What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.
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Chuck Palahniuk
No sight so sad as that of a naughty child, " he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?"" They go to hell, " was my ready and orthodox answer." And what is hell? Can you tell...
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Unknown
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
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Peter Ustinov
More Quotes By Christopher Marlowe
Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.
Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove
Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it. Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of GodAnd tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss?
Think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing? I tell thee, 'tis not so fair as thou Or any man that breathes on earth.
This tottered ensign of my ancestors Which swept the desert shore of that dead sea Whereof we got the name of Mortimer, Will I advance upon these castle-walls. Drums, strike alarum, raise them from their sport, And sing aloud the knell of Gaveston!
