# Doctor Faustus

- Author: [Christopher Marlowe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-marlowe.md)
- Quotes: 26
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-marlowe/doctor-faustus

## Quotes

> No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer
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> That hath deprived thee of the joys of Heaven.
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> Oh, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air,
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> Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell!
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> O soul, be chang'd into little water-drops
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> And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found.
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> My God, my God, look not so fierce on me.
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> Adders and serpents, let me breathe awhile.
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> Ugly hell, gape not, come not, Lucifer!
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> I'll burn my books!—ah, Mephistopheles!"

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> Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
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> And burnèd is Apollo's laurel bough,
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> That sometime grew within this learnèd man.
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> Faustus is gone. Regard his hellish fall,
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> Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise
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> Only to wonder at unlawful things,
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> Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits,
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> To practise more than heavenly power permits.

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> And now, poor soul, must thy good angel leave thee,
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> The jaws of hell are open to receive thee.

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> Have I not made blind Homer sing to me?

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> Live and die in Aristotle's works.

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> All: God forbid!
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> Faustus: God forbade it indeed, but Faustus hath done it.

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> My heart's so harden'd, I cannot repent.

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> What doctrine call you this, Che serà, serà:
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> What will be, shall be? Divinity, adieu!

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> O, thou art fairer than the evening air
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> Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

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> He that loves pleasure, must for pleasure fall.

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> Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer,
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> Conspir'd against our God with Lucifer,
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> And are for ever damn'd with Lucifer.

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> Che serà, serà:
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> What will be, shall be.

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> Ay, Faustus, now hast thou no hope of heaven
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> Therefore despair! Think only upon hell,
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> For that must be thy mansion, there to dwell.

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> Now, Faustus, must thou needs be damned?
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> And canst thou not be saved?
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> What boots it then to think on God or heaven?
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> Away with such vain fancies and despair,
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> Despair in God and trust in Beelzebub.
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> Now go not backward. No, Faustus, be resolute.
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> Why waverest thou? Oh, something soundeth in mine ears
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> Abjure this magic, turn to God again.

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> Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
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> And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
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> Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!

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> If we say that we have no sin
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> We deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us.
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> Why then, belike, we must sin,
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> And consequently die.
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> Ay, we must die an everlasting death.

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> O lente, lente currite, noctis equi!
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> The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike,
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> The Devil will come, and Faustus must be damn'd.
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> O, I'll leap up to my God! Who pulls me down?
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> See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament!
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> One drop would save my soul, half a drop: ah, my Christ.

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> When all the world dissolves,
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> And every creature shall be purified,
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> All places shall be hell that are not heaven.

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> O Faustus, lay that damned book aside,
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> And gaze not on it lest it tempt thy soul
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> And heap God's heavy wrath upon thy head.

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> Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
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> And then thou must be damn'd perpetually!
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> Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven,
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> That time may cease, and midnight never come;
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> Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again, and make
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> Perpetual day; or let this hour be but
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> A year, a month, a week, a natural day,
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> That Faustus may repent and save his soul.

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> Oh gentle Faustus, leave this damned art,
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> This magic, that will charm thy soul to hell,
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> And quite bereave thee of salvation.
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> Though thou hast now offended like a man,
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> Do not persever in it like a devil.

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> Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.
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> Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God,
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> And tasted the eternal joy of Heaven,
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> Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
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> In being depriv'd of everlasting bliss?

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> Pray for me! and what noise soever ye hear, come not unto me, for nothing can rescue me.

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> Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd
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> In one self place; but where we are is hell,
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> And where hell is, there must we ever be.

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> Accursed Faustus, wretch, what hast thou done?
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> I do repent, and yet I do despair.
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> Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast.
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> What shall I do to shun the snares of death?

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> How am I glutted with conceit of this!
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> Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please,
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> Resolve me of all ambiguities,
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> Perform what desperate enterprise I will?

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