Faustus quotes

   But think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing? I tell thee, Faustus, it is not half so fair As thou, or any man that breathes on earth.

- Christopher Marlowe
c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), act 2, sc.2.

   O gentle Faustus, leave this damne'  d art, This magic, that will charm thy soul to hell.

- Christopher Marlowe
c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), act 5, sc.1.

   Now hast thou but one bare hour to live, And then thou must be damned perpetually! Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come. Fair nature's eye, rise, rise, again, and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but Ayear, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente currite, noctis equi: The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. Oh, I'll leap up to my God!Who pulls me down? See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament! One drop would save my soul, half a drop, ah, my Christ.

- Christopher Marlowe
c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), act 5, sc.2.

   You stars that reigned at my nativity, Whose influence hath allotted death and hell, Now draw up Faustus like a foggy mist, Into the entrails of yon labouring cloud, That when you vomit forth into the air, My limbs may issue from your smoky mouths, So that my soul may but ascend to heaven.

- Christopher Marlowe
c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), act 5, sc.2.