Quotes About Selling Your Soul

#1. My pop always said poverty fucks with you... makes you think you can do things you really can't and start selling your soul for things that are priceless.

J.J. McAvoy

#2. Whatever the consequences of staying true to yourself, they're much less than the consequences of selling your soul.

Carly Fiorina

#3. When selling your soul it's important to remember that there is no buy back clause in the contract

Dean Cavanagh

#4. He'd told her that the phrase deal with the Devil came from him; Ellie felt like she was on the verge of selling her soul.

Kresley Cole

#5. I will not make you a pastrami, banana bread, cottage cheese sandwich! That would severely ruin my reputation.

Mitch Hedberg

#6. I told you. . .you belong in a castle.

Evette Davis

#7. selling my soul for student loans and an education.

Shareca Cole.

#8. Why procrastinate when you can precognitate?

Tom Robbins

#9. If he lived by a simple code of ethics, it was not an end in itself, but a way to get something done without selling his soul or destroying his reputation. It was a tool to be wielded like a shovel or a stick of dynamite.

Neal Stephenson

#10. Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes.

Richelle Mead

#11. [ ... ] There are tales among us that you have sold yourself to the devil, and I know not what.'
'We all have, have we not?' returned the stranger, looking up. 'If we were fewer in number, perhaps he would give better wages.

Charles Dickens

#12. Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if anything changes, the whole enterprise will crumble.

Jaroslav Pelikan

#13. I went there anyway-knowingly, willingly-because I wanted a number one hit. I wanted what Metallica had, even if it meant selling a piece of my soul to the devil.

Dave Mustaine

#14. Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.

Paula Brackston

#15. I'm selling my soul to Hollywood Records. I love you like a love song baby, a sinful, miracle, lyrical. He ate my soul. He's Lucifer. I'm torn I'm selling my soul to the rhythm because I'm become so possessed with the music he plays. I chose a path and I'm not looking back.

Selena Gomez

#16. There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.

Don DeLillo

#17. If your organization's intentions transcend the mere act of selling a product or service, and it is brave enough to expose its heart and soul, people will respond. They will connect. They will like you. They will talk. They will buy.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#18. Moaning, delirious with my own pleasure. I know that I'm selling my soul to him at this very moment.

Ella Frank

#19. Amy Winehouse: Did she invent white soul? Wearing a beehive? No. But she did something brand new and fresh, altogether as a package, and you see who's in her wake, from the Duffys to the Lana Del Reys ... Adele selling 20 million records? That would not have happened if Amy Winehouse was alive.

Jack White

#20. From the moment I went to Hollywood for the first time, I was accused by various people of selling out. So I feel I've done my sell-out films already. I've sold everything! I've sold every piece of soul I ever had!

Beeban Kidron

#21. Doesn't everyone sell his soul? I tell you, sir: the devil does not exist, there is no devil, yet I sold him my soul. That is what I am afraid of. To whom did I sell it? That is what I am afraid of, my dear sir: we sell our souls, only there is no buyer.

Joao Guimaraes Rosa

#22. The money one gets for selling one's soul is always spent in deadening one's conscience, so the net gain at the end of a lifetime is no greater than if the diabolic bargain had not been struck.

Thomas A. Edison

#23. Up and down the lanes, the last unevacuated townspeople wake, groan, sigh. Spinsters, prostitutes, men over sixty. Procrastinators, collaborators, disbelievers, drunks. Nuns of every order. The poor. The stubborn. The blind.

Anthony Doerr

#24. Robert Johnson invented the blues, at midnight, at a crossroads, after selling his soul to the devil. Dorothy Parker invented amusing women, at 2 p.m., in New York's best cocktail bar, after tipping a busboy 50 cents for a martini. It's hard not to draw conclusions as to which is the brighter sex.

Caitlin Moran

#25. Love can't be taken back once it's given

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#26. Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.

Nikki Sixx

#27. One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.

Bill Nighy

#28. Scottish golf is a more public game. It is more reasonably priced and they play faster. It isn't cart golf. The only reason resorts force you into carts is for the money. They are selling off the soul of the game for a few dollars.

Daniel J. King

#29. If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it?

Wilt Chamberlain

#30. Business executives need to start by spelling out and communicating their values. Then they need to lead by example. This means getting rid of the bad apples and declining opportunities that bring instant wealth at the cost of selling one's soul.

Vivek Wadhwa

#31. I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.

Ken Jennings

#32. All you ladies that are selling your souls, you need to put your hooker vibes on hold.

LL Cool J

#33. Where you just possessed?" Cookie asked after a long moment, awe softening her voice. "'Cause let me tell you, sweetheart, if that was possession, I'm selling my soul.

Darynda Jones

#34. I'm not interested in selling out my career for a big paycheck. I would love to live a little more comfortably, but it is very important for me to try and maintain my soul and integrity as a filmmaker in as big of a way as possible.

Daryl Wein

#35. The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#36. Heidi's room looked like the aftermath of a not-very-successful airplane bombing. Something that blew open every suitcase in the luggage compartment without bringing the plane down.

William Gibson

#37. Satan seemed to wink at her. She supposed he would know her soul. She couldn't remember selling it, least she wasn't rich, but perhaps it wasn't worth much.

Ursley Kempe

#38. Once we start worrying too often or too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency. I suggest if that day ever comes, then the press has had it.

Otis Chandler

#39. I wouldn't want to belong to a club that would have me as a member

Groucho Marx