#damnation

What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight? ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#delight #paris

I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#been #believe #boy #certain #could

Next I prayed to Allah, whose ears are deaf; then did I beseech his fallen twin, the Devil Hornprick, who sits upon his thorn of fire, gloating upon his constellations and counting his bloody seeds. In Baclava it is said Hornprick once caught a glimpse of the First Woman, as she sat singing to her snake in her chamber of sacred mud. Dazzled by her sight, the light of love and lust, he fell. He is still falling. For all eternity her breasts orbit his dreams. ↗

— Rikki Ducornet

#devil #woman #dreams

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. ↗

— Robert Hall

#appropriate #ask #brandy #call #current

You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory. ↗

— James Larkin

#ensure #may #own #policy #succeed

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation. ↗

— James McGreevey

#damnation #faith #forthcoming #homosexuality #mortal

Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#among #bible #bliss #complex #damnation

I don't know if I ever really bought into the eternal damnation bit. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#bought #damnation #eternal #ever #i

What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#damnation #go #hell #his #obeyed

Damnation seize my soul if I give your quarters, or take any from you. ↗

— Edward Teach

#damnation #give #i #my soul #quarters