Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

"FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee,I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's,Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!"

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

"O, thou art fairer than the evening air     Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars;     Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter     When he appear'd to hapless Semele;     More lovely than the monarch of the sky     In wanton Arethusa's azur'd arms Excerpt From: Christopher Marlowe. “The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus"

"Hell is just a frame of mind."

"Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good willmy soul do thy lord?Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus?Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.(It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery.)"

"Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must we ever be."

"Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements,Where we are tortured and remain forever. Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell,And where hell is must we ever be. And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves,And every creature shall be purified,All places shall be hell that is not heaven."

"The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike"

"Think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing?I tell thee, 'tis not so fair as thou Or any man that breathes on earth."

"Mephistopheles: 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 deprived of everlasting bliss?"