Mephistopheles Quotes:

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

source: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David Luke (1998). “Faust”, p.49, Oxford University Press, USA

topic: Mephistopheles, Omniscient, Knows

I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

source: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Arnold Kaufmann (1963). “Goethe's Faust: part one and sections from part two”, Anchor

topic: Evil, Elements, Spirit, Mephistopheles

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

topic: Light, Darkness, Birth, Mephistopheles, Faust

Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery)

- Christopher Marlowe

topic: Soul, Comfort, Kingdoms, Mephistopheles, Faustus

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.

- Christopher Marlowe

topic: Self, Limits, Hell, Mephistopheles, Faustus

... when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.

- Christopher Marlowe

topic: Heaven, World, Hell, Mephistopheles, Faustus

FAUSTUS. Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistophilis. By him I'll be great emperor of the world, And make a bridge thorough the moving air, To pass the ocean with a band of men; I'll join the hills that bind the Afric shore, And make that country continent to Spain, And both contributory to my crown: The Emperor shall not live but by my leave, Nor any potentate of Germany. Now that I have obtain'd what I desir'd, I'll live in speculation of this art, Till Mephistophilis return again.

- Christopher Marlowe

topic: Country, Art, Stars, Mephistopheles, Faustus

Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of course the characteristic of Faust, which makes him eligible to be saved, is that he seeks aims that are not those of the machine.

- Joseph Campbell

source: Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.24, Anchor

topic: Inspirational, Mean, Men, Mephistopheles, Faust

Heed not Mephistopheles, my children, lest you suffer eternal damnation. When he whispers in your ear, turn away your head and hearken instead to the angel on your shoulder.

- Harry Segall

topic: Children, Angel, Temptation, Mephistopheles

I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.

- Joseph Conrad

source: Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness”, p.44, eKitap Projesi

topic: Running, Littles, Dirt, Mephistopheles

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

topic: Breathing, Half, Faust, Mephistopheles, Contemptuous

At the risk of quoting Mephistopheles I repeat: Welcome to hell. A hell erected and maintained by human-governments, and blessed by black robed judges. A hell that allows you to see your loved ones, but not to touch them. A hell situated in America's boondocks, hundreds of miles away from most families. A white, rural hell, where most of the captives are black and urban. It is an American way of death.

- Mumia Abu-Jamal

source: FaceBook post by Mumia Abu Jamal from Sep 10, 2011

topic: Blessed, White, America, Mephistopheles, Boondocks