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Faust Quotes

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

Boris Pasternak
Writing, Age, Faust

Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience.

Baldur von Schirach
Symphony, Youth, Faust
"The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership". Book by Joachim C. Fest , p. 221, 1999.

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Evil, Faust

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.

Rufus Wainwright
Reading, Iphone, Faust
Interview with Caryn Ganz, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 3, 2009.

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?

Christopher Marlowe
Art, Men, Faustus
Christopher Marlowe, David Wootton (2005). “Doctor Faustus: With The English Faust Book”, p.51, Hackett Publishing

Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Devil, Faust, Caught
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1984). “Faust”

Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Errors, Sea, Faust

All places shall be hell that are not heaven.

Christopher Marlowe
Heaven, Hell, Faustus
Doctor Faustus act 2, sc. 1 (1604)

He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.

Christopher Marlowe
Fall, Pleasure, Faustus
Christopher Marlowe, William Oxberry (1818). “Doctor Faustus: a tragedy”, p.62

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
Breathing, Half, Faust

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