Memory is a sly devil that pretends to wear the cloak of truth, but deceives us both in our youth and our age.
Harley KingThe devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
Karl KrausI want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up!
Steve MaraboliTags: motivational life inspirational devil purpose goodness live morning aspirations
That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.
Cotton MatherTags: devil satan witchcraft
We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
Anatole FranceTags: devil god bible scriptures
Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.
Douglas WilsonPsychic change, as Todorov has recognized, subverted the genre in another way, by revoking the cultural taboos, the social censorship, that had prohibited the overt treatment of psychosexual themes, which then found covert expression in the supernatural tale. 'There is no need today to resort to the devil [or to posthumous reverie] in order to speak of excessive sexual desire, and none to resort to vampires in order to designate the attraction exerted by corpses: psychoanalysis, and the literature which is directly or indirectly inspired by it, deal with these matters in undisguised terms. The themes of fantastic literature have become, literally, the very themes of the psychological investigations of the last fifty years.
Howard KerrTags: devil fantasy psychology horror supernatural vampire psychological fantastic todorov
Nevertheless, the potential and actual importance of fantastic literature lies in such psychic links: what appears to be the result of an overweening imagination, boldly and arbitrarily defying the laws of time, space and ordered causality, is closely connected with, and structured by, the categories of the subconscious, the inner impulses of man's nature. At first glance the scope of fantastic literature, free as it is from the restrictions of natural law, appears to be unlimited. A closer look, however, will show that a few dominant themes and motifs constantly recur: deals with the Devil; returns from the grave for revenge or atonement; invisible creatures; vampires; werewolves; golems; animated puppets or automatons; witchcraft and sorcery; human organs operating as separate entities, and so on. Fantastic literature is a kind of fiction that always leads us back to ourselves, however exotic the presentation; and the objects and events, however bizarre they seem, are simply externalizations of inner psychic states. This may often be mere mummery, but on occasion it seems to touch the heart in its inmost depths and become great literature.
Franz RottensteinerTags: devil literature fantasy horror witchcraft supernatural genre vampire werewolf golem fantastic sorcery fantastique
If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead.
Jess C. ScottTags: humor money devil society god work religion humour sarcasm satan materialism worship rat-race working sarcastic-quotes commercialism job mm rockstar sarcastic bromance sarcastic-humor core core-of-the-soul core-values yaoi
Are you a devil?"
"I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart.
Tags: devil man father-brown
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