quotes about Faust

last updated: November 28, 2023

Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.
-- Baldur von Schirach

Source : "The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership". Book by Joachim C. Fest , p. 221, 1999.

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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
-- Boris Pasternak

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For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.
-- Rufus Wainwright

Source : Interview with Caryn Ganz, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 3, 2009.

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Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...
-- Thomas Harris

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“If I died tomorrow I've accomplished what I set out to do in my life. I enjoy making my movies, I enjoy doing what I do. I have a nice life.”
“We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.”

Source : "Think big on renewables scale" by David J. C. MacKay, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2009.
“Art is not disposable.”
“I am concentrating on my fitness levels so that I don't look old.”
“Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality in terms of the human body. Most previous explorations focused their investigations on the mind.”

Source : Alexander Lowen (1994). “Bioenergetics”, Penguin Group USA
“What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?”
“The autumn comes, a maiden fair In slenderness and grace, With nodding rice-stems in her hair And lilies in her face. In flowers of grasses she is clad; And as she moves along, Birds greet her with their cooing glad Like bracelets' tinkling song.”

Source : Kālidāsa (1928). “Kalidasa translations of Shakuntala, and other works”
“I reluctantly signed up for a journalism major, thinking I needed a fall-back way to make money should my career as a novelist fail to take off. As I started to try on journalism, including doing internships and working at the campus paper, I found I actually liked it. So I started to want to be a journalist.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go. It's a terrible thing to do.”

Source : "Interview with Senator Jim DeMint". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 17, 2012.
“Generally speaking, "an eye single to the glory of God" means sacrifice. It means that instead of endlessly doing what we want to do, we have to do what the Lord wants us to do, but we have to do it in his way when he wants us to do it.”