Descent Into Hell Quotes

#1. Oh you who are born of the gods, easy is the descent into Hell. The door of darkness stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps, and come back out into the brightness above, that is the work, that is the labor.

Virgil

#2. Facilis descensus averno - The descent into hell is easy

Cassandra Clare

#3. I suddenly see us from above. I do that all the time now. I think it's because I'm losing my humanity and it's my way of marking my descent into hell.

Karen Marie Moning

#4. Facilis decensus averni. The descent into hell is easy.

Virgil

#5. The great design of Jesus' descent into hell is to rouse
people out of their deep sleep, to deliver them from sin and death.

Tim Liwanag

#6. There was no half-assing a descent into hell.

Robyn Schneider

#7. The descent into Hell is easy

Virgil

#8. But very few ordeals are redemptive and I doubt if the descent into hell teaches anything new. It can only hasten processes which are already in existence, and usually this just means that it degrades. You see, in hell one lacks the energy for any good change. This indeed is the meaning of hell.

Iris Murdoch

#9. Basia coquum," Simon said. "Or whatever their motto is."
"It's 'Descensus Averno facilis est.' 'The descent into hell is easy," said Alec. "You just said "Kiss the cook."
"Dammit," said Simon. "I knew Jace was screwing with me.

Cassandra Clare

#10. My only regret involved the sad knowledge that I could not handle the amount of alcohol I would have enjoyed. Easy is the descent into Hell.

Robert A. Heinlein

#11. We are not judicious in love; we do not select those whom we ought to love, but those whom we cannot help loving.

George Henry Lewes

#12. It's my opinion that a manager must have the right to manage and that clubs should not impose upon any manager any player that he does not want. I have been left with no choice other than to leave.

Kevin Keegan

#13. I try to cope with everything through humor.

Gail Porter

#14. We never cherish what we've got until the day it's gone.

Dean Frazer

#15. The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way.

Virgil

#16. That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

Morgan Freeman

#17. I will follow him to hell, and that is saying not a little, as I believe him entirely capable of the descent.

Alexandre Dumas

#18. You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.

Isabel Allende

#19. your mind becomes a supercomputer capable of calculating the gyrations of your car, multiplying that by the speed of the fall over the angle of descent, factoring in Newton's laws of motion and, in a split second, coming to the panicked conclusion that this is gonna hurt like hell.

Andrew Davidson

#20. Facilis descensus Averni," he whispered, his ominous and preternatural words striking her very soul. "The descent to Hell is easy.

Sylvain Reynard

#21. The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

C.S. Lewis

#22. Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he lay dying in a foreign land, "The descent to hell is the same from every place.

Diogenes Laertius

#23. At times we gasped for breath at an elevation beyond the albatross
at times became dizzy with the velocity of our descent into some watery hell, where the air grew stagnant, and no sound disturbed the slumbers of the kraken.

Edgar Allan Poe

#24. The only requirement of a symbol is that it have substance underneath: The first thing to do is to try to establish the substance. The style comes after the substance. Only then can the style help the substance, and vice versa.

Wally Olins

#25. CBSE - Central Board of Secondary Education

Azeem Ahmad Khan

#26. The Dark Satirist, like the Dark Knight - that could be a good name for a superhero.

Bassem Youssef

#27. Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

Immanuel Kant

#28. Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven - there is the task, there is the burden.

Virgil

#29. The implacable logic of retribution will prove as appalling as the crime itself, consisting of the soul's slow agonizing descent into a state of such loneliness and despair as to be finally indistinguishable from Hell.

William Shakespeare