Air Quote by Christopher Marlowe

FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be…

— Christopher Marlowe

I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Faustus, who embraced evil and shunned righteousness, became the foremost symbol of the misuse of free will, that sublime gift from God with its…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me.

— Nostradamus

“If you had such a secret, I And all my fiendish flock, my incubi, Succubi, imps and cacodemons, would have leapt Out of our…

— Christopher Fry

I would have things as they were in all the days of my life, and in the days of my longfathers before me: to…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You would attain to the divine perfection, And yet not turn your back upon the world

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

On Christ’s glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the…

— John Owen

I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and…

— Saul Williams

“Literary theory, especially, cast its lot with a spirit of ceaseless skepticism and incessant interrogation; modeling itself on Mephistopheles in Goethe’s Faust, it was…

— Rita Felski

I could have 99 demons, an because of the Blood Of Jesus. Jesus gave me the power to defeat everyone.

— Larry J Cowell