The Devil And Miss Prym Quotes

"People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same."

"Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being."

"Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the same fate awaits those who believe those promises."

"It doesn't take a devil much time to bring about destruction; they are like storms, hurricanes or avalanches, which, in a few short hours, can destroy trees planted two hundred years before."

"The beauty of the mountains, something she had never really noticed before, simply because she had been born in that place and had always tended to take the landscape for granted."

"In paradise. But if you live somewhere perfect for a long time, you get bored with it in the end."

"Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil."

"As soon as we're born, we begin to die, but at the same time we begin the search for a reason to live."

"A thunderclap is an entirely natural phenomenon. If God wanted to talk to man, he wouldn't use such roundabout methods."

"You weren’t afraid of me and you didn’t judge me. For the first time ever, someone spent a night by my side trusting that I could be a good man, one ready to offer hospitality to those in need. Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did."

"The only reason anyone would sell salt more cheaply usually would be because he was desperate for money. Anyone who took advantage of that situation would be showing a lack of respect for the sweat and struggle of the man who labored to produce it."

"In the beginning, there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterward added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today."

"Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed."

"It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we’re not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it’s only at night - when we’re alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep - that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice."

"A German philosopher once said: 'Even God has a hell: his love of mankind.'"

"The world has existed without agriculture, without domesticated animals, without religion, without music, but never without weapons."

"All my sense of compassion gradually vanished, and now my heart has entirely shriveled up; I don’t care whether I live or die. But first, for the sake of my wife and daughters, I need to grasp what happened in that hiding place."

"If even God has a hell, which is his love for mankind, then any man has his hell within easy reach, and that’s his love for his family."

"As soon as he had recovered, he went on: 'Both the police and the kidnappers used weapons made by my company. No one knows how the terrorists came to be in possession of them, and that’s of no importance: they had them. Despite all my efforts, my struggle to ensure that everything was carried out according to the strictest regulations for their manufacture and sale, my family had been killed by something which I, at some point, had sold perhaps over a meal at an expensive restaurant, while I chatted about the weather or world politics.'"

"Ahab really underrates human nature: it isn’t the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us."

"That gold will belong to Viscos if, in the next three days, someone in the village is murdered. If no one dies, the stranger will leave, taking his gold with him."

"You’re a man who has suffered and wants revenge. Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness."

"The wager should be fairer. If, after three days, no one is murdered, the village should get the ten gold bars anyway. As a reward for the integrity of its inhabitants."

"There is no such thing as Good: virtue is simply one of the many faces of terror. When man understands that, he will realize that this world is just a little joke played on him by God."

"Life was a reign of terror, in the shadow of the guillotine."

"The only thing I know well is my religion, in which the sacrifice of one individual saved all humanity."

"You shouldn’t let others take your name in vain, you know! False information can lead to all kinds of confusion!"

"Her voice had the desperate edge of someone in real peril."

"Now show me you’re a man! Get down from the tree, keep a firm hold on the torch and walk towards the wolf!"

"Do it!" she yelled again and, when he heard her voice, the man understood the force of authority behind her words - an authority derived from terror, from the ability to react quickly, leaving fear and suffering for later.

"Chantal considered crying, but didn’t want to do so in front of him. She bit back her tears."

"‘On the other hand, I believe you saved something else deep inside me,’ the stranger went on."

"Man needs what’s worst in him in order to achieve what’s best in him."

"Evil needs to manifest itself if Good was finally to move the hearts of these people."

"‘Forgive God!’ said the stranger. ‘Forgive an implacable God who is constantly creating and destroying!’"

"‘Why did God force Job to behave in that way? To show that he was by nature bad, and that everything that came to him was by grace and grace alone, and not as a reward for good behaviour."

"The atmosphere in the room was getting tenser and tenser, and the mayor’s wife remembered the discussion in the sacristy about the land beside the church; they were talking about one thing, but meaning something else entirely."

"Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time."

"Just as God had done to him, so he would do unto others."

"You should be grateful for all that's happened, because by showing you the gold, I gave you much more than the possibility of simply becoming rich. I forced you to act, to stop complaining about everything and to take a stand."

"It is very dangerous to believe in other people."