Dante Alighieri Inferno Quotes

#1. I felt for the tormented whirlwinds
Damned for their carnal sins
Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

Dante Alighieri

#2. Take your camera off automatic. You are the photographer.

Steve Coleman

#3. And now I fell as bodies fall,for dead.

Dante Alighieri

#4. But wonderful people nearly always combine their wonderfulness with other characteristic that can drive on utterly crazy

Eva Rice

#5. Love insists the loved loves back

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#6. If you weep not now, when will you ever weep?

E se non piangi, de che pianger suoli?

--Inferno, c. 33 l. 42

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#7. The great secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all

Isaac Asimov

#8. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

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#9. Thy soul is by vile fear assailed

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#10. As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.

Dante Alighieri

#11. You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you

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#12. Inferno is the underworld as described in Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy, which portrays hell as an elaborately structured realm populated by entities known as "shades" - bodiless souls trapped between life and death.

Dan Brown

#13. The well heeded well heard.

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#14. The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

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#15. My dad being a DJ, I heard all the hits, no matter what. My mom always had on the radio because my dad was on it.

Chad Channing

#16. I'm interested in Jeff Bridges. I love that guy. And I did like Carey Mulligan in 'An Education.' And I love Meryl Streep, but if they could ban 'Julie & Julia,' I'd be in favor of that.

Andy Kindler

#17. The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.

Dante Alighieri

#18. My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.

Natasha Trethewey

#19. For pride and avarice and envy are the three fierce sparks that set all hearts ablaze.

Dante Alighieri

#20. They yearn for what they fear for.

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#21. There is no greater sorrow
than thinking back upon a happy time
in misery

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#22. A husband's work as provider will be so difficult that it can only be fulfilled in the power of the Spirit and a transformed life.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#23. These dwell among the blackest souls, loaded down deep by sins of differing types. If you sink far enough, you'll see them all.

Dante Alighieri

#24. There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

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#25. I love to doubt as well as know."
~ Dante's Inferno, Canto XI, 93: "non men che saver, dubbiar m'aggrata.

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#26. Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.

Dante Alighieri

#27. I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.

Stevie Wonder

#28. Life is a " vale of tears" a period of trial and suffering, an unpleasant but necessary preparation for the afterlife where alone man could expect to enjoy happiness - Archibald T. MacAllister (The Inferno; Dante Alighieri translated by John Ciardi)

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