"For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me. And what I dreaded has happened to me, I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, for trouble comes."
Job 3:25,26
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Francis Bacon
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
Ernest Hemingway
"And there will be such intense darkness that one can feel it."
Exodus 10:21
"...and the visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright."
H. Melville
"I am responsible for everything...except my very responsibility."
Jean-Paul Sarte
The cannon thunders . . . limbs fly in all directions . . . one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice . . . it’s Humanity in search of happiness.
Charles Baudelaire
"This generation is a wicked generation; it seeks for a sign, and yet no sign shall be given to
it..."
Luke 11:29
"Let there be light!" said God, and there was light!
"Let there be blood!" says man, and there’s a sea!
Lord Byron
"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."
Robert Louis Stevenson
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot
"His children are far from safety; They shall be crushed at the gate without a rescuer."
Job 5:4
"But know ye for certain...Ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this
city..."
Jeremiah 26:15
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
Samuel Butler
"O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul..."
Ernest Renan
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph Conrad
"Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast."
Faust
The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Aleister Crowley
"You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones."
Plato
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
Aleister Crowley
"A man's past is not simply a dead history...it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing
shudders andbitter flavours and the tinglings of a mertited shame."
George Eliot
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
1 Peter 5:8.
"He said to me in a dreadful voice that I had indeed escaped his clutches, but he would capture
me still"
St. Teresa of Avila
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
John Milton
"I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget."
Cicero
"Thou dost frighten me with dreams and terrify me by visions."
Job 7:14
"Every man before he dies shall see the devil."
English Proverb 1560
"Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just another form of love."
Charles Manson
But the peasants, how do the peasants die?
Leo Tolstoy
"Man is the cruelest animal"
Nietzche
"Behold ye scoffers, For I will work wonders in your days, which ye will not believe."
Book of Rabakkuk
"And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know."
William Rose Benet
"Did you ever find yourself talking with the dead? Since Willie's death, I catch myself every
day,involuntarily talking with him, as if he were with me."
Abraham Lincoln - upon the death of his son
"The great day of his wrath is come"
Revelation 6:17