#devil

Why don’t I have a cool name like that. Instead of Lucifer and Beelzebub. I mean, seriously, Beelzebub? It sounds like the name of a brothel or a low life bar. Why can’t I be Lu Von Cipher? Sounds good, right? ↗

— Cameron Jace

#lucifer #life

They know how bad they are. They don't care. They do what they do because...because they love it. ↗

— Anne Rice

#love

Dr Sass…maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and that it was the devil who invented a third dimension. Thus are the words ‘straight’, ‘square’, and ‘flat’ the words of noblemen, but the apple was an orb, and the sin of our first parents, the attempt at getting around God. I myself much prefer the art of painting to sculpture ↗

— Karen Blixen

#god #painting #religion #sculpture #art

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word. ↗

— Martin Luther

#devil #evil #religion #religion

The Devil has all the best tunes? My arse! Metalville just got a new sheriff. ↗

— Mark Rice

#heavy-metal #mark-rice #metallic-dreams #music #rock

Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million generations ago. This is not long by evolutionary standards. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#africa

Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep... ↗

— John Milton

#lucifer #satan #satan

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#general #good #i #language #long

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#devil #his #horns #talk

But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and leaves the poor devil ten thousand-a-year and a title. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#comes #devil #god #hero #indifferent