FAUSTUS Tell me, where is the place that men call hell? MEPHISTOPHELES Under the heavens. FAUSTUS Ay, but whereabouts? MEPHISTOPHELES Within the bowels of these elements, Where we are tortured and remain for ever. Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must we ever be. And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that is not heaven. FAUSTUS Come, I think hell's a fable. * * * Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus Scene 5, c. 1592, edited by Robert Lindey, Penguin 2003
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RELIGIONTexts with this theme:
- Szene aus Faust, D 126 (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
- Die Nonne, D 208, D 212 (Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty and Johann Heinrich Voß)
- Geist der Liebe, D 233 (Ludwig Theobul Kosegarten)
- An Schwager Kronos, D 369 (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
- Fahrt zum Hades, D 526 (Johann Baptist Mayrhofer)
- Eine altschottische Ballade, D 923 (Thomas Percy and Johann Gottfried Herder)