Wormwood Quotes

“The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water— The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.”
― Bible stories.com, Bible

“Spomenik herojima Černobilja... To je rukotvoreni sarkofag, u koji su pohranili nuklearni plamen. Piramida dvadesetog veka.”
― Svetlana Aleksijevič

“Ideally, Screwtape's advice to Wormwood should have been balanced by archangelical advice to the patient's guardian angel. Without this the picture of human life is lopsided. But who could supply the deficiency? Even if a man—and he would have to be a far better man than I—could scale the spiritual heights required, what answerable style could he use? For the style would really be part of the content. Mere advice would be no good; every sentence would have to smell of Heaven. And nowadays even if you could write pros like Johanna's, you wouldn't be allowed to for the canon of functionalism has disabled literature for half its functions. At bottom, every idealist style dictates not only how we should say things, but what sort of things we may say.”
― C.S. Lewis, Some Everyday Thoughts

“That's the wormwood," Robert Jordan told him. "In this, the real absinthe, there is wormwood. It's supposed to rot your brain out but I don't believe it. It only changes the ideas. You should pour water into it very slowly, a few drops at a time. But I poured it into the water.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“Svet koji je ranije bio podatan i miroljubiv sada uliva strah. Stariji ljudi se evakuišu i ne znajući da odlaze zauvek i gledaju u nebo: "Sunce sija... Nema ni dima ni gasa. Ne puca se. Pa zar je to rat?”
― Svetlana Aleksijevič, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster