Top 96 The Inferno Quotes
#1. 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
#2. How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?
Arun Manilal Gandhi
#3. Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
Arnold Bennett
#4. A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Carl Jung
#5. A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova.
Dennis Ritchie
#6. We ain't got time for a goddamn poetry recital. An' your juices feel like rain on the inferno? What the fuck is that, is that from the letter you wrote to penthouse?
Garth Ennis
#7. 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
#8. Because I was the match that started the inferno.
Jay McLean
#9. A time of darkness, despair, disillusion-so black only the inferno of the human mind can be-symbolic death, and numb shock-then the painful agony of slow rebirth and psychic regeneration
Sylvia Plath
#10. 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
#11. The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
Octavian Paler
#12. These day's I like to imagine that if a man were to enter through the slash on the book's cover, as if it were a door, he could walk right into the heart of the Inferno.
Andrew Davidson
#13. Do not fear the fire within you, burning brighter than any star it attracts only those whose flame feeds off the very air that you breathe. Let passion be the inferno that engulfs your soul.
Virginia Alison
#14. (Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#15. Henry Lloyd was with Darrow when they toured the mine. It was a dreadful experience, Lloyd said, "like a foretaste of the inferno."
"You might as well get used to it," Darrow told him. Heaven was reserved for Wall Street financiers. Infidels like themselves would be rooming with Satan.
John A. Farrell
#16. Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
Erica Jong
#17. She made the beast rear its ugly head. Stirred fantasies in my mind I would have never otherwise entertained. Owning her wasn't enough. Controlling her didn't douse the inferno blazing inside me.
A. Zavarelli
#18. 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
#19. I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint.
Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.
Anais Nin
#20. I leaned back against the headboard and closed my eyes, feeling the inferno flair between us once more. It flickered and pulsed, but my blood was boiling on the inside and Ember was the fire that ignited it.
Julie Kagawa
#21. He remembered Tessa telling him that Hell was cold, and he fought back the odd urge to smile at the memory. They'd been running for their lives, she ought to have been terrified, and there she had been, telling him about the Inferno in precise American tones.
Cassandra Clare
#22. Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew anywhere.
Simon Wiesenthal
#23. Hell in life indicates a state of suffering, of agony, of torture (by others, by circumstances, or by ourselves), and of insipid colors and little joy. Hell is a heavy vibration that drags us spiraling down from the highest to the lowest, darkest vibrations..
Jacqueline Ripstein
#24. 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
#25. Rather than starting a new inferno in Iraq, our energies would have been better spent in extinguishing the existing fire in Palestine.
Iqbal Sacranie
#26. 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
#28. The man was no stranger to deception, and yet his heart was pounding wildly now. He took another deep, throbbing breath. You've been deceiving people for years, he reminded himself. It's what you do.
Dan Brown
#29. Old school new school need to learn though I burn baby, burn like Disco Inferno Burn slow like blunts with ya-yo Peel more skins than Idaho potato
The Notorious B.I.G.
#30. But he was not her Gabriel. Her Gabriel was dead. Gone. Leaving behind only vestiges of him in the body of a harsh and tortured clone. Gabriel had almost broken Julia's heart once. She was determined she would not let him break her heart for the second time.
Sylvain Reynard
#31. I fear the signs point to the time of Revelation being upon us. If it is so, then this is only the beginning.
Nicholas DeAntonio
#33. 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
#34. Under the right circumstances, a tiny spark can grow into an inferno that can overcome an entire city. So can an idea.
Richard Paul Evans
#35. The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#36. This inferno of contagion destroyed thousands of societies and millions of people, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, from California to New England, from the Amazon rainforest to the tundra of Hudson Bay. It is what destroyed T1, the City of the Jaguar, and the ancient people of Mosquitia.
Douglas Preston
#37. The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.
Dennis Ritchie
#38. There is no hell. The Witnesses believe hell is a mistranslation of Gehenna, which was an ancient garbage dump. They say that nonbelievers simply die at Armageddon, rather than being thrown into an inferno. "How can you have a kind and loving God who also roasts people?" he asks. I
A. J. Jacobs
#39. 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
#40. Look on the bright side: if you cause an inferno, you can always put it out with a tidal wave.
Sarah Alderson
#41. I felt for the tormented whirlwinds
Damned for their carnal sins
Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.
Dante Alighieri
#42. I groaned. Man and his codes! Even in a lawless inferno, man has to give himself some honor, he's so desperate to separate himself from the beasts.
Steve Toltz
#43. The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.
Edward Abbey
#44. He had seen inferno and tempest, and had not only looked into the abyss but the abyss had looked into him, and then made disparaging comments.
Jonathan L. Howard
#45. The truly righteous will find deliverance from the ensuing holocaust, but their numbers will be few: those who remain will pray for death to escape the unspeakable horrors, finding only what they truly hold within their hearts.
Nicholas DeAntonio
#46. The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Dan Brown
#49. 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
#50. The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel. I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.
Veronica Roth
#51. His eyes were dark, dangerous, and not at all cold. He burned with an internal inferno she wanted to touch. She stared into the gaze of a tiger and knew, even as she watched the cat retreat into the camouflage of a gentleman: The Duke of Wakefield was the Ghost of St. Giles.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#52. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes in around her.
Dan Brown
#53. Sometimes the only choice is the lesser of two evils.
Dan Brown
#54. People who felt scared or desperate enough could do almost anything, even things that are extremely out of their character to do; things that are not natural to them. When it came to the human condition, it only took one small spark to light an inferno.
J.M. Northup
#55. Lucas," his sister scolded. "Stop staring at the pretty inferno. Introduce yourself to our guests.
Marie Rutkoski
#56. But they were doughnuts of darkness. Evil, damned doughnuts, tainted by the spawn of darkness . . . . . which could obviously be redeemed only by passing through the fiery, cleansing inferno of a wizardly digestive tract.
Jim Butcher
#57. Which one worse: armpits or breath? Surely, the latter; but the unwashed inferno of his crotch and ass stank worst of all. "Y'all
Kai Ashante Wilson
#58. It begins with a spark that ignites into an inferno, and while a spark is harmless, an inferno almost always burns. You are the spark, Rose.
Caprice Rose
#59. There is no paradise except that which we create in the great tomb of the churches. There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.
Henri Barbusse
#60. 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
#61. Hell was invented to scare to death the unruly human mind and bring it to obedience.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#62. - but Surge was not mad, had never been completely drained of his compassion and he could never forget, nor could he since then look upon the helpless and the innocent with anything less than outrage and a desire for justice.
John Spencer
#63. Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.
Dante Alighieri
#64. His eyes were twin flakes of ember floating into the night from a roaring inferno. I won't let anything happen to you. No matter what I have to do, I will keep you safe.
Airicka Phoenix
#65. It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.
Dan Brown
#66. Christ, I walk through an inferno unscatched, then singe my ass on the flight back."
[ ... ]
"You guys are the ... the heart and brain of the Great Machine."
"Yeah? Then you're the inflamed anus."
"You're not the brain, by the way.
Brian K. Vaughan
#67. He wrapped one arm around her waist, and cupped her nape with his other hand. This time when he kissed her there was none of the restraint she'd seen in the past. It was like kissing an inferno.
Hot, breathless, so overwhelming that her senses shattered.
Maya Banks
#68. As you may know, when someone endures a horrific event like a car accident or a sexual assault, the long-term memories can be permanently debilitating.
Dan Brown
#69. HELEN HAYES: "Which part of The Divine Comedy do you like the most, Tiziano?"
TIZIANO CONTI: "The fifth Canto."
HELEN HAYES: "The Hell, huh?"
TIZIANO CONTI: "L'inferno depicts the truth.
Merce Cardus
#70. Ben: 'Just...finish it.'
Caedus: 'Finish it? Ben, we're just getting started.'
--Ben Skywalker and Darth Caedus
Troy Denning
#71. 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
#72. She'd made her choice when he asked for her hand and she'd offered it without question. Once he touched her, she knew she was his. Afterward, he had always been there in the shadows, like a ghost who would not leave. And now the ghost had decided that he wanted her.
Sylvain Reynard
#73. Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem, he says.
Suzanne Collins
#74. 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
#75. Green Inferno was the truth, everything can be saw, how we were in the privous centuries, how did we survive and many other interesting stuff.
So do you have the guts?
Deyth Banger
#76. Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno.
Anders Zorn
#77. Locals? I hit print on the shock file, and my face was the paper that came out of the printer! Locals! I had no idea this deep into the green inferno there'd be people living! Or dying!
Mark Gunk
#78. Hell hath no fury like a queen scorned. ...
... That would be the last time he made a crack about being a flamer to someone with a flamethrower for hands. Though he'd really lost it when Raven sang the lyric to Disco Inferno.
J.T. Bock
#79. I care for you-you're precious to me. And one of the most precious things to me is your voice. Please tell me what you want, what you need, what you desire ...
Sylvain Reynard
#80. It is my job-no,-my privilege-to make the fire become an inferno. -Gray
Gena Showalter
#81. Hail, mute devil! You are the most intense animal. An eternal mystic of the fleshly inferno ...
Federico Garcia Lorca
#82. The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.
Dante Alighieri
#83. The world is an inferno. It will burn until every nation has fallen, until all who oppose us are dead, until people see the true light.
Alexander Gordon Smith
#84. I am the shade. Through the dolent city, i flee. Through the eternal woe, i take flight..
Dan Brown
#85. For pride and avarice and envy are the three fierce sparks that set all hearts ablaze.
Dante Alighieri
#86. She opened her hand, and a ball of fire blasted from it toward the cloudless sky of the Realm. It whirled above the Shifters, growing and stretching into a huge flaming disc. It moved down, forming a spinning inferno wall around them.
A.O. Peart
#87. A gathering nimbus obscured the sun's light and out from the gathered clouds looped and coiled the guardian of the avian world. With a trail of inferno in her wake, it was Alicanto
Soroosh Shahrivar
#88. I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno.
Cindy Sheehan
#89. But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening ... doesn't mean it won't.
Dan Brown
#90. Your stylist turned out to be prophetic in his wardrobe choice. Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem.
Suzanne Collins
#91. It's a remake of a film called Inferno Affairs. It's a Hong Kong film, and if we come anywhere close to what they did in the original, we're going to have a hot property on our hands, because Inferno Affairs is a great piece.
Anthony Anderson
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair
Dante Alighieri
#96. Hades is evolved to the highest state of simplicity.
J.M. Ledgard
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