Quotes About Dante's Inferno

#1. Bourbon, Kentucky bourbon especially, is like Dante's Inferno in a glass, fire walks down your throat, lungs, and heart and everything in between with an unpleasant after-taste. We got along just fine.

Bruce Crown

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

Dante Alighieri

#3. My hell is going to be the stairmaster wing of Dante's inferno, where they're gonna tape my feet to the pedals and the only music I get is Michael Bolton karaoke style.

Janeane Garofalo

#4. Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dante's work on the modern world,

Dan Brown

#5. The ecclesiastical description of Hell is that of a horrible place of fire and torment; in Dante's Inferno, and in northern climes, it was thought to be an icy cold region, a giant refrigerator.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#6. 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.

Dante Alighieri

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

Dante Alighieri

#8. Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here. - Dante, Inferno

Cassandra Clare

#9. The well heeded well heard.

Dante Alighieri

#10. 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

#11. In every journey comes a moment ... one like no other. And in that moment, you must decide between who you are ... and who you want to be.

J.C. Marino

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

Dante Alighieri

#13. I disconnected as a sleepy Seth stepped out of the bedroom. "Who's Dante? Was that a collect call to the Inferno?"
"They won't accept the charges," I murmured.

Richelle Mead

#14. 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

#15. Thy soul is by vile fear assailed

Dante Alighieri

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

Dante Alighieri

#17. A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of The Inferno, The Divine Comedy, to help guide him through the underworld.

Edward Hirsch

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

E se non piangi, de che pianger suoli?

--Inferno, c. 33 l. 42

Dante Alighieri

#19. Love insists the loved loves back

Dante Alighieri

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Dante Alighieri

#23. They yearn for what they fear for.

Dante Alighieri

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

Dante Alighieri

#25. 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

#26. And believe me, the Catholic Church has much to thank Dante for. His Inferno terrified the faithful for centuries, and no doubt tripled church attendance among the fearful.

Dan Brown

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

Dante Alighieri

#28. Thirteen years ago, I found myself professionally in the same "dark wood" described by Dante in the introduction to The Inferno. For the

Bloomberg Press

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

Dante Alighieri

#30. 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)

Dante Alighieri

#31. Tis Dante I prefer. In his Inferno he suggests the one true path from Hell lies at its very heart ...
... and that in order to escape, we must instead go further IN.

Alan Moore

#32. Why do we allow people to abuse their children? Why don't we defend the sick and the weak? Why do we let soldiers round up our neighbors and make them wear a star on their clothing and cram them into boxcars? It isn't God who's evil-it's us.

Sylvain Reynard

#33. Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage. Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

Emma Goldman