“The devil is not as black as he is painted.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy (via juliana marques)
“The devil is not as black as he is painted.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy (via juliana marques)
“We desperately need the foolishness of God.”
— Madeleine L’Engle, A Circle of Quiet (via Csaba Osvath)
“Imagine three days of God
gone missing. Now,
imagine my lifetime of it.”
— Airea D. Matthews, from “Sexton Texts a Backslider after Breaking Lent,” Simulacra
“We are gods with anuses.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
“There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.”
— Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science