David Mitchell Quotes

The more sin is rationalized, the greater the possibility of destruction by Satan's wolves.

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)

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Evil changes everybody!

Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

The devil's name is dullness.

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.

My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me.

How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?

Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

The devil tryna rip out my soul. Lost my soul. I'll see you in hell. I see the devil linger on, stuck in my hell.

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!

And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.

Don't let a little sin in; all hell will break loose.

There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be as near to hell as they can.

The angels did not merely sin and lose heaven, but they passed beyond all other beings in sin and made themselves fit denizens for hell.

These dwell among the blackest souls,loaded down deep by sins of differing types.If you sink far enough,you'll see them all.

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it.

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

When the ghost comes round at midnight Well you both can have some fun He can drive you mad, he can make you sad He can keep you from the sun When they take him down, he'll be both safe and sound And the hand does fit the glove And no matter what they tell you, There's good and evil in everyone.

Hell ain't half full.