#devil

…breaking the heart of someone you still love is a rare horror, not funny to anyone, except perhaps Satan…and even his pleasure would be spoiled by not having had a hand in it, by the dumb, wasteful accident of the thing. The Devil wants meaning just like the rest of us. ↗

— Glenn Duncan

#love #meaning #the-devil #funny

For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her. ↗

— Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

#fools #god #love #paris #love

I'm throwing the trash, clearing the junk I'm firing the cannon, your gonna get sunk You better sail off to the seven seas There's not enough room for you and for me (once again if you would please, "There's not enough room for you and for me") ↗

— Ke ha (run devil run)

#ke-ha #lyrics #run #song #song-lyrics

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#laughter #religion #satan #the-devil #business

Sometimes I get so frustrated with folk talking about how busy the devil is. Own your mess! You might be the devil. Stop inviting MESS into your life and blaming the devil! ↗

— J'son M. Lee

#god #god-s-will #inspirational #religion #business

The Devil himself had probably re-designed Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts. ↗

— Anthony Price

#humor #the-devil #design

This is the very devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. ↗

— James Reston

#affairs #always #conform #devilish #foreign

My love, I’d volunteer to live a thousand lives if I got to spend any part of them with you. ↗

— Debra Anastasia

#bittersweet-seraphim #crushed-seraphim #debra-anastasia #devil #jack

A single smile from her could make his entire being burn. One touch from her hand and he was undone. It was terrifying to think of how much power this one person had over him. How one single gesture from her could affect him so profoundly. (Sin thinking about Kat) ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#love #power-of-love #scared #sensual #love

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#evil #faust #good #good-and-evil