Mephistopheles Quotes

“Stop making love to your misery, It eats away at you like a vulture!

“Dear friend, all theory is gray, And green the golden tree of life.”

“Forbear to trifle longer with thy grief, Which, vulture-like, consumes thee in this den.”

“There’s nothing wise and nothing silly Wasn’t thought of long ago. ”

“Methinks, by most, ‘twill be confess’d That Death is never quite a welcome guest.”

“Men’s wretchedness in soothe I so deplore, Not even I would plague the sorry creatures more.”

“In the end, you are exactly--what you are. Put on a wig with a million curls, put the highest heeled boots on your feet, yet you remain in the end just what you are.”