“I am the serpent that devours her own tail--her own tale. If you tell a tale well enough, it becomes a path… — Mary Sharratt Copy Share Image
Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
“When the serpent is slithering inside, you will know it, but only with the gift will you understand how it lives and… — E.G. Kardos Copy Share Image
Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
“The Serpent woke. It raised its head from the silky soft mud, then slithered forward, leaving an elegant trail. It threw itself… — Kylie Chan Copy Share Image
“Since time immemorial, the serpent has symbolized organic vitality. Serpents move in curves and so does energy. The serpent developed from the… — Stefan Emunds Copy Share Image
You say I have the most wicked face of any woman. You say my hair is like the serpent locks of Medusa,… — Theda Bara Copy Share Image
Cold as winter, strong as stone; She faced the darkness all alone. A silver goddess; a reflection. A mirage; a recollection. No… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
We are Adam and Eve born out of chaos called creation Ribbing me gave you life yet you forget there will always… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not be despondent when fighting against the incorporeal enemy, but even in the midst of your afflictions and oppression praise the… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
“The Serpent takes its smallest form and drifts through an oil slick, choking on the filth in the water, suffocating on the… — Kylie Chan Copy Share Image
I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent." "Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But...she didn't… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The only part of Christian teachings which will be truly accepted by the Chinese people is Christ's injunction to be "harmless as… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
So "Embrace Of The Serpent" is told from the points of view and in the languages of the indigenous peoples of the… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
The fruit is rotten, the serpent's eyes shine, as he wraps around the vine. If you wanna get closer to him, get… — Genesis Copy Share Image
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is… — A. E. Waite Copy Share Image
“ For now, and since first break of dawne the Fiend, Meer Serpent in appearance, forth was come, And on his Quest, where… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Kundalini is seen as a serpent that can shoot up the shushumna, past the chakras, opening them all and bringing you into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In Egypt the staff was rendered as a shepherd's crook that was a symbol for the pharaohs, the Druids of Egypt. The… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
She touches me The jungle lights up with incinerating fire Looks like a flaming serpent I look into her eyes I see… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Life lives on life. This is the sense of the symbol of the Ouroboros, the serpent biting its tail. Everything that lives… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Temptation is as old as time; or at least, the history of temptation extends as far back as the moment Eve gave… — Derek Blasberg Copy Share Image
“The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Another striding instance is recorded by the very intelligent traveler regarding a representation of the fall of our first parents, sculptured in… — Godfrey Higgins Copy Share Image
At this slower pace the journey took a couple of days, and I fought off a few minor threats along the way… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has… — Adelaide Anne Procter Copy Share Image
The faith towards God in Christ must be sure and steadfast, that it may solace and make glad the conscience, and put… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and… — Nat Turner Copy Share Image
“I hate and fear snakes, because if you look into the eyes of any snake you will see that it knows all… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I put a What Would Jesus Do bracelet on my Jewish friend's wrist and it burned his skin. He threw it on… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image