#damned

It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing. ↗

— Matthew Henson

#frozen #god #hells #ice #land

Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest. ↗

— Lewis Gilbert

#blackest #chemist #damned #guardian #perchance

Not to be too dramatic about it, that night I slept the sleep of the damned. I dreamt of turrets and craggy ledges where the windswept rain blew in from the ocean with the odor of violets. A pale woman in Elizabethan dress stood beside my bed and whispered in my ear that the bells would ring. An old salt in an oilcloth jacket sat atop a piling, mending nets with an awl, while far out at sea a tine aeroplane winged its way towards the setting sun. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#drama #dramatic #dream #flavia #mystery

Trust me, the being-dead part is much easier than the dying part. If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#internet

Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it. Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss? ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

#hell #religion #religion

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me. ↗

— Iris Dement

#believes #call #damned #fight #guy

When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing. ↗

— Patty Duke

#damned #going #i #imagine #kind

The growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bight and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humor. Then more details are required and one paints a second portrait, and a third--before long the best lines cancel out--and the secret is exposed at last; the panes of the pictures have intermingled and given us away, and though we paint and paint we can no longer sell a picture. We must be satisfied with hoping that such famous accounts of ourselves as we make to our wives and children and business associates are accepted as true. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#the-beautiful-and-the-damned #beauty

You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#come #damned #discouraged #encouraged #important

I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it. ↗

— Anne Rice

#anne-rice #lestat-de-lioncourt #queen-of-the-damned #beauty