A Quote by Philip Neri

The stench of impurity before God and the angels is so great, that no stench in the world can equal it.

Philip Neri

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Angels Before Equal God Great Impurity World

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Philip Neri
July 22, 1515 - May 25, 1595

Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus. Imagine all this, and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell.

James Joyce

Writer speaks a stench.

Franz Kafka

Writers speak stench.

Franz Kafka

Noise: a stench in the ear.

Ambrose Bierce

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

Margaret Thatcher

Fascism: awful stench of saw and axe.

Michel Leiris

The smell of frustration cannot compete with the stench of non-creation

Daniel Lee

Death wears many faces, but it’s stench is always the same.

Stephen R. Lawhead

A great stench will come from Lausanne, but they will not know its origin; they will put out all people from distant places, fire seen in the sky, a foreign nation defeated.

Nostradamus

God, it stinks,” I said, hand over my nose as he pulled me into a long step. Al strode forward, head high. “It’s the stench of bureaucracy, my itchy-witch, and why I chose to go into human resources when but a wee lad.