The Poisoned Pilgrim Quotes

“That’s the way people are: what they don’t understand is the work of the devil.”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Poisoned Pilgrim

“The poor die on flea-infested straw, and the rich on down pillows, Simon thought. But no matter where they are, people die. Death makes no exceptions.”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Poisoned Pilgrim

“The world is so beautiful, he thought. Why are the people in it so cruel?”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Poisoned Pilgrim

“I believe in evil, but not in ghosts. Only we humans can be evil; we don’t need ghosts for that.”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Poisoned Pilgrim

“Do you understand, Jakob?” the apothecary whispered. “This isn’t war; this is worse. The war was fought according to bloody rules, but faith is like a mad beast—once it’s broken out, it can no longer be controlled.”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Poisoned Pilgrim

“It’s faith that makes these things sacred, isn’t it?”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Poisoned Pilgrim

“…faith is like a mad beast— once it’s broken out, it can no longer be controlled.”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Poisoned Pilgrim

“mien,”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Poisoned Pilgrim

“If anyone wants to pray, he should do it in the silence of the church and not carry on like people at a county fair.”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Poisoned Pilgrim

“Did not God himself command us to subdue the earth? To do that, we first have to understand it.”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Poisoned Pilgrim

“But perhaps we’re living in a new era; as people struggle increasingly for knowledge, they move farther and farther from God.”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Poisoned Pilgrim

“I believe in evil, but not in ghosts. Only we humans can be evil; we”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Poisoned Pilgrim

“nag onto”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Poisoned Pilgrim

“We come”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Poisoned Pilgrim

“Sometimes it seemed to him that, in his concern for others and his thirst for knowledge, he forgot what was really dear to him.”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Poisoned Pilgrim

“Sometimes it seemed to him that, in his concern for others and his thirst for knowledge,”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Poisoned Pilgrim

“As so often when he was reading, Simon became lost in the images conjured up in his mind.”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Poisoned Pilgrim

“the most precious thing I have,”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Poisoned Pilgrim

“little grain remained. Men prayed to God for drier”
― Oliver Pötzsch, The Poisoned Pilgrim