The Devil And Miss Prym Quotes

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.

So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.

In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation, of infinite love. Some people think they can promise anything, others accept whatever seems to guarantee better days ahead, as, I suspect is your case. Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the fate awaits those who believe promises.

Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.

She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.

Love, too, was just a question of time

About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.

Fear again. If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others ad fight for your rights...

You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you desperately want to believe; That everyone is evil. ” Chantal

And one more thing: you still believe that man can be good. If that weren't the case, you wouldn't have invented all this nonsense to convince yourself otherwise.

It was all a matter of control. And Choice. Nothing more, nothing less

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready.

If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.

The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side.

Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others and fight for your rights. It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at night - when we're alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep - that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice.

Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to meet the man of her life. 

Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win.

You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.

The story of one person is the story of all of humanity.

It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.

You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.

Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.

Find someone who makes you smile, because it only takes a smile to make a day better

Only cowards hide behind silence.

Everyday was another day spent waiting.  Every night was another night when she might meet someone who would  recognize her true worth.

Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.

They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that didn't fit in with what they were used to believing.

life can seem either very long or very short, according to how you live it.

Do what your heart commands, and God will be happy.

إن ايمان المرء بطيبته الذاتية, أسهل عليه دائما ً, من مجابهته الآخرين وكفاحه من أجل حقوقه الشخصية ...

Quien ama esperando una recompensa está perdiendo el tiempo.

If even God has a hell, which is his love for mankind, then any man has his hell within easy reach, and that's his love for his family.

Those who make promises they don't keep end up powerless and frustrated, and exactly the same fate awaits those who believe those promises.

it’s that sense of powerlessness that destroyed my soul. i cannot be as good as i would like to be.nor as bad as i think i need to be.i think you have the same doubts that your goodness was not rewarded

Evil had to manifest itself and fulfill its role, so that ultimately Good could prevail. [...] Evil needs to manifest itself, for them to understand the value of Good.

Given the right circumstances, every human being n this earth would be willing to commit evil.

There were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. [...] People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same

She took the pills from him, placed them in her mouth and drank the entire bottle of water. Water: it has no taste, no smell, no color, and yet it is the most important thing in the world. Just like her at that moment.

It isn't the light you want to recover, it’s the certainty that there is only darkness

جهان بدون کشاورزی،بدون دام داری،بدون مذهب،بدون موسیقی وجود داشته است-اما بدون سلاح،هرگز.

We are all the same instincts-- Good and Evil struggled between us. It was all a matter of control. And choice. Nothing more and nothing less.

The girl would grow up marked by tragedy and, when she was twenty, would use her own suffering to help alleviate that of others. She would eventually do work of such vital importance that it would have an impact all over the world.

There are two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of wheel fortune, when you least expected it.

But as far as true goodness was concerned, that didn't exist - not in the land of cowardly men.

Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it would be too late.

You were in paradise, but you didn’t recognize it. It’s the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.

Comme cela arrive, d'ailleurs, à la plupart des gens en ce monde : ils recherchent la souffrance là où ils trouveraient les joies les plus grandes, parce qu'ils croient qu'ils ne méritent pas le bonheur.

Once the soul has left the body it had to walk across a bridge as narrow as a knife edge, with paradise on the right and, on the left, a series of circles that lead down into the darkness inside the earth. Before crossing the bridge, each person had to place all his virtues in his right hand and all his sins in his left, and the imbalance between the two meant that the person always fell towards the side to which his actions on Earth had inclined him.

Bukan terang yang ingin kau temukan. Kau hanya ingin memastikan bahwa yang ada hanyalah kegelapan.

كلهم جهلة مستسلمون ... ساذجون ...مامن واحد فيهم يؤمن بأمر لا يكون جزءا ً مما تعود الاعتقاد به .

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have receive a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign of terror, in the shadow of the guillotine.

لا تصدقي الوعود, فالعالم مليء بها : ثراء, خلاص أبدي, حب سرمدي. يعتقد بعض الأشخاص بأنهم جديرون بإغداق الوعود. ويتقبل البعض الآخر أي شيء يضمن لهم أياماً أفضل. فالذين يعدون ولا يفون يشعرون بالعجز والكبت وينسحب الأمر ذاته على من يتشبثون بالوعود.

There was terror in each and every one of the people on that beautiful beach and on that breathtakingly beautiful evening. Terror of being alone, terror of the darkness filling their imaginations with devils, terror of doing anything not in the manuals of good behaviour, terror of God's judgement, of what other people would say, of the law punishing any mistake, terror of trying and failing, terror of succeeding and having to live with the envy of other people, terror of loving and being rejected, terror of asking for a rise in salary, of accepting an invitation, of going somewhere new, of not being able to speak a foreign language, of not making the right impression, of growing old, of dying, of being pointed on because of one's defects, of not being pointed out because of one's merits, of not being noticed either for one's defects or one's merits. Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign of terror, in the shadow of the guillotine.

Well, it's a choice like any other, even though it's stupid to believe we can control the world and to allow ourselves to be lulled into a false sense of security that leaves us totally unprepared for life; because then, when you least expect it, an earthquake throws up a range of mountains, a bolt of lightning kills a tree that was preparing for its summer rebirth, or a hunting accident puts paid to the life of an honest man.

She had just realised there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing for ever everything that is familiar... People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

Like all human beings, he thought money could by whatever he wanted.

Pour dominer un homme, faites en sorte qu'il ait peur.

les hommes riches ne gaspillent jamais un centime, seuls les pauvres en sont capables.

Good & Evil struggled between us. It was all a matter of control. And choice. Nothing more ang nothing less.

Chi ama aspettandosi qualcosa in cambio perde il suo tempo.

Man needs what’s worst in him in order to achieve what’s best in him.

In the lives of individuals, just as in society at large, the profoundest changes take place within a very reduced time frame. When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready... The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

فهمید بود که دو چیز میتواند آدمی را از تحقق بخشیدن به رویاهایش باز دارد:این که تصور کند رویاها غیرممکن هستند،یا،با یک گردش ناگهانی چرخ فلک ،درست زمانی که هیچ انتظارش ندارد،ببیند که تحقق آنها ممکن شده است.در این لحظه ناگهان هراسی سر بر می آورد:هراس از راهی که آدم نمیداند به کجا می انجامد،از زندگی ای سرشار از مبارزه های ناشناخته،از احتمال ناپدید شدن ناگهانی همه چیزهایی که آدم به آنها عادت کرده است.

إن لعب دور النفوس الرحيمة هو أمرٌ جيد فقط لأولئكَ الذين يخشونَ الاضطلاع بمواقف في الحياة. إن إيمان المرء بطيبته الذاتية أسهل عليه دائما من مجابهته للآخرين وكفاحه من أجل حقوقه الشخصية. وإن من الأيسر دائماً أن نتلقى الإهانة من أن نملكَ الشجاعة لمجابهةِ خصمٍ أقوى منا. بإستطاعتنا أن نقول دائماً أن الحجر الذي رُشِقنا به لم يُصبنا وفي الليل فقط، عندما نكون بمفردنا أو يكون الزوج نائماً، أو الزوجة أو الزميل، في الليل فقط نستطيع أن نرثي بصمت جُبنَنَا.

When he was creating this picture, Leonardo da Vinci encountered a serious problem: he had to depict Good - in the person of Jesus - and Evil - in the figure of Judas, the friend who resolves to betray him during the meal. He stopped work on the painting until he could find his ideal models. One day, when he was listening to a choir, he saw in one of the boys the perfect image of Christ. He invited him to his studio and made sketches and studies of his face. Three years went by. The Last Supper was almost complete, but Leonardo had still not found the perfect model for Judas. The cardinal responsible for the church started to put pressure on him to finish the mural. After many days spent vainly searching, the artist came across a prematurely aged youth, in rags and lying drunk in the gutter. With some difficulty, he persuaded his assistants to bring the fellow directly to the church, since there was no time left to make preliminary sketches. The beggar was taken there, not quite understanding what was going on. He was propped up by Leonardo's assistants, while Leonardo copied the lines of impiety, sin and egotism so clearly etched on his features. When he had finished, the beggar, who had sobered up slightly, opened his eyes and saw the picture before him. With a mixture of horror and sadness he said: 'I've seen that picture before!' 'When?' asked an astonished Leonardo. 'Three years ago, before I lost everything I had, at a time when I used to sing in a choir and my life was full of dreams. The artist asked me to pose as the model for the face of Jesus.

Once a year, the inhabitants shut themselves up in their houses, made two lists, turned to face the highest mountain and then raised their first list to the heavens. '“Here, Lord, are all the sins I have committed against you,” they said, reading the account of all the sins they had committed. Business swindles, adulteries, injustices, things of that sort. “I have sinned and beg forgiveness for having offended You so greatly.” 'Then - and here lay Ahab's originality - the residents immediately pulled the second list out of their pocket and, still facing the same mountain, they held that one up to the skies too. And they said something like: “And here, Lord, is a list of all Your sins against me: You made me work harder than necessary, my daughter fell ill despite all my prayers, I as robbed when I was trying to be honest, I suffered more than was fair.” After reading out the second list, they ended the ritual I have been unjust towards You and You have been towards me. However, since today is the Day of Atonement, You will forget my faults and I will forget Yours and we can carry on together for another year.

There is no such thing as Good: virtue is simply one of the many faces of terror...terror of God's judgement, of what other people would say, of the law punishing any mistake

Here was the opportunity to free herself from all those identical days and nights.

A chaque jour suffit sa peine, et demain est un autre jour.

L'Uomo ha bisogno di ciò che ha in sé di peggiore, per raggiungere ciò che di migliore esiste in lui.

Le persone vogliono cambiare tutto e, nello stesso tempo, desiderano che ogni cosa continui ad essere come prima.

Il Bene e il Male hanno la stessa faccia. Tutto dipende dal momento in cui attraversano il cammino di ogni essere umano.

Per dominare un uomo, fa' in modo che abbia paura.

Del resto, è quello che accade su questo mondo alla maggior parte delle persone: ricercano la sofferenza nei luoghi più gioiosi, perché pensano di non meritare la felicità.

Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.

El silencio no siempre significa un 'sí'; generalmente, sólo demuestra la incapacidad de las personas para reaccionar de inmediato.

Men who have nothing to lose never give a thought for eternal life.

Silence does not always mean consent-- Usually all it meant was that people were incapable of coming up with an immediate response. If someone did not agree, they would later torture themselves with the idea that they had.

I would continue to suffer,but knowing that everyone else is suffering too would make the pain more bearable.If only a few of us are condemned to suffer terrible tragedies,then there is something very wrong with the creation.

Then the voice - which identified itself as the prince of this world, the only being who really knows what happens on Earth - began to show him the people around him on the beach. The wonderful father who was busy packing things up and helping his children put on some warm clothes and who would love to have an affair with his secretary, but was terrified on his wife's response. His wife who would like to work and have her independence, but who was terrified of her husband's response. The children who behave themselves because they were terrified of being punished. The girl who was reading a book all on her own beneath the sunshade, pretending she didn't care, but inside was terrified of spending the rest of her life alone. The boy running around with a tennis racuqet , terrified of having to live up to his parents' expectations. The waiter serving tropical drinks to the rich customers and terrified that he could be sacket at any moment. The young girl who wanted to be a dance, but who was studying law instead because she was terrified of what the neighbours might say. The old man who didn't smoke or drink and said he felt much better for it, when in truth it was the terror of death what whispered in his ears like the wind. The married couple who ran by, splashing through the surf, with a smile on their face but with a terror in their hearts telling them that they would soon be old, boring and useless. The man with the suntan who swept up in his launch in front of everybody and waved and smiled, but was terrified because he could lose all his money from one moment to the next. The hotel owner, watching the whole idyllic scene from his office, trying to keep everyone happy and cheerful, urging his accountants to ever greater vigilance, and terrified because he knew that however honest he was government officials would still find mistakes in his accounts if they wanted to. There was terror in each and every one of the people on that beautiful beach and on that breathtakingly beautiful evening. Terror of being alone, terror of the darkness filling their imaginations with devils, terror of doing anything not in the manuals of good behaviour, terror of God's punishing any mistake, terror of trying and failing, terror of succeeding and having to live with the envy of other people, terror of loving and being rejected, terror of asking for a rise in salary, of accepting an invitation, of going somewhere new, of not being able to speak a foreign language, of not making the right impression, of growing old, of dying, of being pointed out because of one's defects, of not being pointed out because of one's merits, of not being noticed either for one's defects of one's merits.

Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to meet the man of her life. At first, she had let many chances slip by, thinking that the right person had not yet arrived, but now she had a sense that time was passing more quickly than she had thought.

It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at night -- when we're alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep -- that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice.

…there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.

‎En fin d'après-midi à couper le souffle,tous sur cette plage merveilleuses étaient à couper le souffle,tous sur cette plage merveilleuse étaient en proie à la terreur .terreur de se trouver seul,terreur de l'obscurité qui peuplait de démons l'imagination,terreur de faire qq chose de prohibé par le code des usages,terreur du jugement de Dieu,terreur d'une justice inflexible à la moindre faute,terreur de risquer et de perdre,terreur de gagner et être jalousé,terreur d’être aimé et d’être repoussé , terreur de demander une augmentation ,d'accepter une invitation ,de se lancer dans l'inconnu , de ne pas réussir à parler une langue étrangère,de ne pas être capable d'impressionner les autres, vieillir, mourir , d’être remarqué pour ses défauts , de ne pas être remarqué pour ses qualités, de n’être remarqué ni pour ses qualités ,ni pour ses défauts.... TERREUR,TERREUR,TERREUR... La vie est le régime de la terreur , l'ombre de la guillotine.

I have always believed that in the lives of individuals, just as in society at large, the profoundest changes take place within a very reduced time frame.When we least expected it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready yet.The challenge will not wait.Life does not look back.A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.

كان رجلُ يسير مع حصانه وكلبه في طريق،فهبَّت عاصفةُ قتلت الجميع.لم يـُدرك الرجل،آنذاك،أنه فارق الحياة،واستأنف السير مع رفيقيه:قد يتأتّى أن الموتى يحتاجون إلى بعض الوقت لكي يدركوا مصيرهم المـُستجدّ.. تقدم الرجل مع حصانه وكلبه بصعوبة عند سفح جبل تحت شمس حارقة،كانوا يتصببون عرقـًا ويكاد الظمأ يـُجهز عليهم. رأى الرجل عند منعطف ما بابـًا رائعـًا من الرخام يـُفضي إلى ساحة مرصوفة ببلاط من الذهب،في وسطها نافورة،ينبثق منها ماء بلوري،توجه الرجل إلى الحارس الواقف أمام المدخل: -صباح الخير. فرد الحارس: -صباح الخير. -قـُل لي،ما هذا المكان الجميل؟ -إنه السماء. -يالحسن طالعنا،لقد بلغنا السماء! إننا نموت عطشـًا. قال الحارس،مُشيرًا إلى نافورة الماء: -باستطاعتك،يا سيدي،أن تدخل وتشرب من الماء قدر ما تشاء. -كذلك حصاني وكلبي ظامئان. -آسف،يـُحظر دخول الحيوانات. كان الرجل ظمآن جدًا ولكنه لا يريد أن يشرب بمفرده.حيـّا الرجل،كاتمـًا خيبته،وتابع طريقه مع رفيقيه.بعد مسيرة طويلة،مـُصعدًا في دروب الجبل،بلغ مكانـًا فيه باب مـُخلّع على خط حديدي مـُحاط بالأشجار من جانبيه.وكان ثمة رجل نائم في ظل إحدى الشجرات،وقد غطَّى وجهه بقبعته: قال المسافر: -صباح الخير. لم يكن الرجل نائمـًا،فردَّ على التحية بإشارة من رأسه. -إني أموت عطشـًا،وكذلك حصاني وكلبي. -أترى تلك الصخور؟في وسطها ينبوع تستطيع أن تشرب منه قدر ما تشاء. بعدما ارتوى هو وحصانه وكلبه،سارع بتوجيه الشكر إلى الرجل الذي ردَّ قائلاً: -عُد متى شئت. -ولكن أخبرني،ما اسم هذا المكان؟ -السماء. -السماء؟ولكن حارس الباب الرخامي قال لي أن السماء هناك! -لا،ليست السماء هناك،بل الجحيم. -لم أفهم،كيف يمكن انتحال اسم السماء؟إن مثل هذا الامر قد يـُشوش الأذهان ويـُلحق بكم ضررًا. -إطلاقـًا.الحق يـُقال إن ذلك يؤدّي لنا خدمة كبيرة،فهناك يلبثُ كل

I have two pockets, each contains a piece of papers with writing on it, but I only put money in my left pocket," he said in reply. "On the piece of paper in my right pocket, I wrote I am nothing but dust and ashes. The piece of paper in my left pocket, where I keep my money, says: I am the manifestation of God on Earth. Whenever I see misery and injustice, I put my hand in my left pocket and try to help. Whenever I come up against laziness and indolence, I put my hand in my right pocket and find I have nothing to give. In this way, I manage to balance the material and the spiritual worlds.

Todos - inclusive ela - são cobardes na hora em que podem mudar o destino. Mas, quanto à verdadeira bondade, essa não existe - nem na terra dos homens cobardes, nem no céu do Deus Todo-Poderoso, que semeia sofrimento a torto e a direito, só para que passemos a nossa vida inteira pedindo que nos livre do mal.

Desempenhar o papel de alma caridosa era apenas para os que tinham medo de tomar atitudes na vida. É sempre muito mais fácil acreditar na própria bondade do que enfrentar os outros e lutar pelos seus direitos. É sempre mais fácil ouvir uma ofensa e não revidar do que ter coragem para se lançar num combate com alguém mais forte; podemos sempre dizer que não fomos atingidos pela pedra que nos atiraram - e só de noite é que podemos chorar em silêncio a nossa cobardia.

Aliás, os chineses eram os únicos que explicavam de uma maneira convincente a origem dos demónios - eram maus porque tinham experimentado a maldade na própria carne, e agora queriam passá-la para os outros, num eterno ciclo de vingança.