Hadassa

This is the highest state man can achieve without God, and the glory of it dazzles Dante, but he knows also that it is nothing compared to the glory of God.

[morbidlymusing]

For a revolution to succeed, the entire population must support it.

I wanted to be justice, love, and the wrath of God all in one.

Note: Rest in peace Marjane Satrapi. I will always hold Persepolis close to my heart

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

[morbidlymusing]

I am what God made me.

And perhaps it is my difference that will make me more useful.

Conclave (2024)

[morbidlymusing]

Free will, it's like butterfly wings– one touch and it never gets off the ground. I only set the stage; you pull your own strings.

Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the great. It has become a dwelling place of demons.

Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, don't swallow.

Until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God. And where can you go from there?

Devil's Advocate (1997)

[morbidlymusing]

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Act, and God will act.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

Spring 1994 ready-to-wear, Jean Paul Gautier / Saint (Pinterest) / Joan of Arc, Dante Gabriel Rosetti / Joan of Arc, John Everett Millais / Jeanne d'arc, Anato Finnstark / A girl is a knife, chribarra / Jeanne d'arc, Albert Lynch

[asoftepiloguemylove]

I TALK TO GOD, BUT THE SKY IS EMPTY; ABOUT GOD

Keaton St. James (@boykeats) Salvation // pinterest // Lisa Marie Basile Andalucia // Sean Glatch (via @sicknessinmotion) // "Shiizakana," Hannibal (2013-2015) dir. Michael Rymer // Antonio Canova Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss (via @moonstoast) // Ethel Cain Sun Bleached Flies // José Saramago (tr. Margaret Jull Costa) Cain (via @morepeachyogurt) // Leila Chatti Portrait of the Illness as Nightmare

[morbidlymusing]

I know nothing of God, or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that will damn or save my soul.

Interview with the Vampire (1994)

[morbidlymusing]

And so I sought for other vampires, for God, for the devil, for a hundred things under a hundred names.

And it was all the same, all evil. And all wrong. Because no one could in any guise convince me of what I myself knew to be true, that I was damned in my own mind and soul.

Van Helsing (2004) / Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) / Interview with the Vampire (1994) / Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

[morbidlymusing]

You look upward with your telescopes and downward with your microscopes, and there, in space and water drops, the stars and bacteria, do you find God.

Note: Happy birthday, Sherlock

Sherlock (2010)

[morbidlymusing]

Gabriel : [as Gabriel falls from God's grace] Father!

If sweet, sweet God loves you so, then I will make you worthy of His love.

It's only in the face of horror that you truly find your nobler selves. And you can be so noble. So, I'll bring you pain, I'll bring you horror, so that you may rise above it. So that those of you who survive this reign of hell on earth will be worthy of God's love.

Constantine (2005) / Archangel Gabriel, Instrument of God, Smiting the Camp of Sennacherib and the Assyrians, Gustav Doré / Christ Displaying His Wounds, Giovanni Antonio Galli

[morbidlymusing]

Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead.

I am dying of love. That is how it is...I loved her so! And I love her still....and am dying of love for her. - I kissed her alive...and she looked as beautiful as if she had been dead.

Pitiful creature of darkness, what kind of life have you known? God, give me courage to show you you are not alone!

The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

[letallthetrashraindown]

Anne Carson, “Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides” / George William Joy, “Sleeping Joan of Arc” / Andrei Tarkovsky / Anne Sexton / “Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian”, Il Sodoma / Caroline Walker Bynum, “The Holy Feast and the Holy Fast” / “St. Denis Picking up His Head”, 19th century Panthéon murals / Margaret Atwood, “Half Hanged Mary”

[morbidlymusing]

"And beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, then genius, as it needs no explanation it is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned; it has its divine right of sovereignty."

"The prayer of your pride has been answered. The prayer of your repentance will be answered also. I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished."

We shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

The Fencing Lesson, Alcide Théophile Robaudi / Diventare, Ling Ly / Photograph by okayushka on Instagram / Pie Fight Study 2, Adrian Ghenie /The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

[morbidlymusing]

God kills indiscriminately and so shall we.

For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves.

Interview with the Vampire (1994)

[madamelesfressange]

                                     The Mystical Splendor Of Rome

1. The Triumph of Saint Ignatius, Andrea Pozzo, Sant'Ignazio Church, Rome

2. Triumph of the Name of Jesus. Giovanni Gaulli; Gesù Rome

3. Ceiling of Palazzo Barberini , Pietro da Cortona, Rome

4. Divine Providence, Palazzo Barberini, Rome

5. Triumph of Saint Francis, Corrado Giaquinto  Santi Apostoli. Rome

6. Apotheosis of Saint Louis, Charles-Joseph Natoire, San Luigi dei Francesi

7. Ceiling of the Choir Chapel, Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican

8. Hall of Maps ceiling, Vatican Museum, Vatican

[morbidlymusing]

When I think about God, I think about hiding. The way a child hides. In hopes of being found.

-Kate Cayley, "Lent"

Visions of Ecstasy (1989) / For Those Who Can Ride in an Airplane for the First Time, Anis Mojgai / The Black Wing or the Touch of an Angel, Robert Ferreri / Pietà, William-Adolphe Bouguereau / Chop Suey!, System of a Down / Die Perle, Martin Gerlach / Death in Venice (1971)