“I am part of the part that once was everything,Part of the darkness which gave birth to light…Mephistopheles, from Faust.”

“Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.”

“The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.”

“When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and they've lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.”

“Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.”

“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”

“Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.”