WIST Quotations

Marlowe, Christopher -- The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 1, sc. 3 (sc. 3), l. 317ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)

Dave — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:43:59 +0000

FAUSTUS: Where are you damn’d?

MEPHISTOPHILIS: In hell.

FAUSTUS: How comes it, then, that thou art out of hell?

MEPHISTOPHILIS: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it
Think’st thou that I, who saw the face of God,
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells,
In being depriv’d of everlasting bliss?

Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564–1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 1, sc. 3 (sc. 3), l. 317ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)

The 1594 (1616) "B" text has the same dialog (l. 299ff).

Crabbe, George -- “The Newspaper,” l. 158 (1785)

Dave — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 01:09:28 +0000

The murmuring poor, who will not fast in peace.

George Crabbe (1754–1832) English poet, writer, surgeon, clergyman
“The Newspaper,” l. 158 (1785)

Stevenson, Robert Louis -- Treasure Island, ch. 15 (1883)

Dave — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 02:06:16 +0000

Many’s the long night I’ve dreamed of cheese — toasted, mostly.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Treasure Island, ch. 15 (1883)

Russell, Bertrand -- Lecture (1948-12-26), “Social Cohesion and Human Nature,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 1, BBC Radio

Dave — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:22:45 +0000

We now know that a life which goes excessively against natural impulse is one which is likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and all uncharitableness. They may develop strains of cruelty, or, on the other hand, they may so completely lose all joy in life that they have no longer any capacity for effort.

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1948-12-26), “Social Cohesion and Human Nature,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 1, BBC Radio

Transcript.

Collected, with edits, as collected, with edits, in Authority and the Individual (1949). In the book, the first sentence begins, "We now know that a life which goes against natural impulse beyond a point is one which is likely to involve ..."

Frankl, Viktor -- Man’s Search for Meaning, Part 1 (1959)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Viktor Frankl (1905–1997) German-American psychologist, writer
Man’s Search for Meaning, Part 1 (1959)