Top 36 The Diabolic Quotes
#1. When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.
Honore De Balzac
#2. 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
#3. The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
Philip James Bailey
#4. I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Hilaire Belloc
#5. Some might call us a monstrous pair, and they would be right. Tyrus and I were both scorpions in our way, dangerous creatures crossing the most treacherous of rivers together. Together we might sting - but we also would float.
S.J. Kincaid
#6. This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes the nature of a fiction, an illusion, a devilish apparition. To a greater or lesser extent this applies to all the postcommunist countries.
Andrzej Stasiuk
#7. I looked at the stone, fragmented and cratered by my rage and jealousy. So this was a visual representation of a Diabolic's affection, then: an ugly, broken, blood-spattered stone.
S.J. Kincaid
#8. After all, to the truly skeptical mind, diabolic forces are just as reasonable building blocks for the cosmos as mindless electrons. No possibility, however seemingly fantastic, should revolt the truly skeptical mind.
Fritz Leiber
#9. Blotches of blood looked more like a soupspoon than an R. Several people told him angrily to be quiet.
Jeanne DuPrau
#10. The extraordinary mystique of hers made you think she lived on rose petals and listened to nothing but Mozart, but it wasn't true. She was quite funny and ribald. She could tell a dirty joke. She played charades with a great sense of fun and vulgarity, and she could be quite bitchy.
Andre Previn
#11. The terrible, diabolic thing with this disease is that you are always looking behind your shoulder every couple months with the most recent checkup to see whether there is any sign of it, and I thank God to say at this point there is not.
Joe Eszterhas
#12. I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.
Lady Gregory
#13. Everyone believed Diabolics were fearless, but in my earliest years, all I knew was fear.
S.J. Kincaid
#14. When mind, body, and spirit are in harmony, happiness is the natural result.
Deepak Chopra
#15. People spoke so reverently of affection. For me, it seemed a torment. I couldn't believe people enjoyed these feelings. How could someone relish this excruciating need to secure a claim on another human?
S.J. Kincaid
#16. Bel Air, I am convinced, was laid out by some diabolic sadist who deliberately decided not to use a compass or a surveyor.
Groucho Marx
#17. Happiness is something you design for the present; it is not something you postpone for the future.
Pravin Agarwal
#18. People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
#19. There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
Pat Conroy
#20. Don't brood too much," she wrote to Helen, "on the superiority of the unseen to the seen. It's true, but to brood on it is medieval. Our business is not to contrast the two, but to reconcile them.
E. M. Forster
#21. I had only two goals going forward: to fool people into thinking I was Sidonia, and of course, to try not to die.
S.J. Kincaid
#22. By the end of my thirties I was a mental and physical wreck!
Steven Magee
#23. I will lose the habit of stars in the heavens, as frozen water loses the habit of snowflakes. I will take my frozen body, and give it to the young goats that they might graze it.
Nichita Stanescu
#24. It's terrifying to realize your own decisions are shaping your destiny.
S.J. Kincaid
#25. Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
William Jennings Bryan
#27. Our ancestors sought knowledge, but we, their descendants, glorify ignorance.
S.J. Kincaid
#28. Love. Comfort. I didn't know what those were, but I wanted them. I would have them. I closed the distance and snapped the man's neck.
As the third corpse dropped to the floor at my feet, the Matriarch smiled.
S.J. Kincaid
#29. The whole bloody system is sick: the very notion of leadership, a balloon with a face painted upon it, elected and inflated by media's diabolic need to reduce ideas to personalities.
Kate Millett
#30. Perhaps scorpions were the only ones who could save each other.
Whatever lay ahead, it would always be the two of us above the rest of the universe, and woe to any who dared step in out path.
S.J. Kincaid
#31. But then, I've always believed love is the most volatile substance in the universe. It erupts, it incinerates, and then it simply flames out. . . .
S.J. Kincaid
#32. In his diabolic solitude, only the possibility of love could awake the libertine to perfect, immaculate terror. It is in this holy terror of love that we find, in both men and women themselves, the source of all opposition to the emancipation of women.
Angela Carter
#33. A Diabolic is ruthless. A Diabolic is powerful. A Diabolic has a single task: Kill in order to protect the person you've been created for.
S.J. Kincaid
#34. That was when I realized for the first time that Sidonia Impyrean - meek, fearful, shy, and gentle - could be indomitable.
S.J. Kincaid
#36. Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
John Lasseter
