Inferno Quotes

“It’s not by accident that people talk of a state of confusion as not being able to see the wood for the trees, or of being out of the woods when some crisis is surmopunted. It is a place of loss, confusion, terror and anger, a place where you can, like Dante, find yourself going down into Hell. But if it’s any comfort, the dark wood isn’t just that. It’s also a place of opportunity and adventure. It is the place in which fortunes can be reversed, hearts mended, hopes reborn.”
― Amanda Craig

“You hide it well, but I can see it, Lord Verniers. You hate us. We have beaten you to obedience but it's still there, like dry tinder waiting for a spark.”
― Anthony Ryan, Tower Lord

“No greater grief than to remember days
Of joy, when misery is at hand. That kens
Thy learn’d instructor. Yet so eagerly 120
If thou art bent to know the primal root,
From whence our love gat being, I will do
As one, who weeps and tells his tale. One day,
For our delight we read of Lancelot, 4
How him love thrall’d. Alone we were, and no 125
Suspicion near us. Oft-times by that reading
Our eyes were drawn together, and the hue
Fled from our alter’d cheek. But at one point
Alone we fell. When of that smile we read,
The wished smile so raptorously kiss’d 130
By one so deep in love, then he, who ne’er
From me shall separate, at once my lips
All trembling kiss’d. The book and writer both
Were love’s purveyors. In its leaves that day
We read no more.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

“Iubirea-aceeași moarte ne-a sortit :
străfund de iad pe ucigaș l-așteaptă.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“O, câte vise și ce dor de viață
i-a-mpins, grăii, pe aceștia spre mormânt!”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“El infierno es saber que tenías tan poca fe en mi amor que estabas dispuesta a condenarme a la agonía de por vida.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Again the Magic

“Inferno was for learning about the nature of our sins. Purgatorio is for learning how to overcome our tendencies to fall victim to them. Understanding our dilemma is important, but it's not enough. What we do with that understanding makes the difference between life and death. Humility is the foundation of all spiritual progress. Humility builds resilience. Stop thinking of yourself as the center of your world you will find it becomes easier to endure life's setbacks. Plus, you will in time become more grateful, more merciful, and more loving.”
― Rod Dreher, How Dante Can Save Your Life: The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem

“There's a well kept secret to intense and heartfelt writing. Let your words bleed. (A new take on Hemingway's famous quote)”
― Sky Bardsey

“Midtveges fram i gonga gjennom livet, eg fann meg att i tjukke svarte skogen, i vilska fór eg langt frå rette vegen.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Somos livres, e este é o inferno.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

“I cannot explain the force which pulled me to him. His sudden entrance into my empty life had awakened something very simple and very human in me. I was wondering and wishing and hoping like a fool with the rest of them. I had come undone by the magic. I wanted to believe. I wanted to chase after something vain and stupid. I wanted to forget everything.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Inferno

“The smiles he gave me were like lush paintings or lines of romantic prose.
What a shame it was that he never saw any of the smiles I gave him.
They were like daggers.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Inferno

“The dream was over and there was work to be done in the waking nightmare.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Inferno

“I studied his face and saw little stars forming in his overcast irises. There must have been a thousand shipwrecks in those gray seas. Now the tides were focused entirely on me, one lady who had become his moon.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Inferno

“Overnight, Dante's work solidified the abstract concept of hell into clear and terrifying vision - visceral, palpable, and unforgettable. Not surprisingly, following the poem's release, the Catholic Church enjoyed an enormous upstick in attendance from terrified sinners looking to avoid Dante's updated version of the underworld.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“La oss derfor lide uten håp om en eneste varig glede i dette livet siden vi, mine brødre, allerede er i helvete.”
― August Strindberg, Inferno

“Og la oss ikke anklage Herren om vi ser små uskyldige barn lide. Ingen kan vite hvorfor, men den guddommelige rettferdighet lar oss ane at det er på grunn av forbrytelser begått før ankomsten til denne verden.”
― August Strindberg

“La oss glede oss over pinslene som er like mange betalte gjeldsposter, og la oss tro at det er av barmhjertighet vi ikke får vite de opprinnelige årsakene til våre kvaler.”
― August Strindberg, Inferno

“Se her, mine brødre, en menneskeskjebne blant mange andre, og erkjenn at et menneskes liv kan ta seg ut som en dårlig spøk!”
― August Strindberg, Inferno

“I wondered if my enemy could feel someone walking over his grave.
No reason for him to worry, though. I was only preparing it for him.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Inferno

“But sometimes a bad thing in good hands is not a bad thing anymore.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Inferno

“The stars possessed a more humble kind of beauty than the raging and burning centerpiece of our galaxy, and he loved the sound those distant diamonds seemed to make in the black silence. Like winking sirens luring lonely men to their deaths, drowning them in the inky sky. He was desperately in love with their mysterious nature and saw them as alluring and gentle masters of the heavens. Masters of perfection, those tiny spheres of cool light were, hanging fixed and strong in their celestial place.
Perhaps he loved the stars because he was so much like them.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Inferno

“Being light and ignorant seemed so easy compared to being heavy with terrible knowledge and immeasurable conviction. But I suppose someone must bear the agonizing weight of vision if the world is ever to change.
Someone has got to see the bigger picture.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Inferno

“The idea of being dead was so very entertaining I found no good reason to move or think about my surroundings for a long while. Being dead would be convenient and easy and certainly a nice break from being human, which was often worse than sleeping in the dirt as a corpse.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Inferno

“I remember every good thing that dies.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Inferno

“Life is notoriously unfair and very funny for those who are mad enough to laugh.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Inferno

“I suppose he always knew I would watch him and never judge him. I possessed within me that patient and gentle willingness all men so desire in a woman. I did whatever he told me to do without question. When I had nothing to do, I simply was there to be a cool and understanding presence who never threatened his need for control and perfection. I was the ideal woman.
And even the ideal woman lies, you know.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Inferno

“Tell them Cinderella has risen from the grave and is off to the ball with a dreadful surprise for the prince.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Inferno

“One thing I can say after experience with both sides of the coin is that all humans get their kicks in the same careless way. Poor as dirt or rich as a king. Lacking in any worldly knowledge or as educated as a bloody encyclopedia. Crude and filthy or refined as diamonds. Free drinks and cheap music and easy thrills will make animals of the worst and the best of men. Sin does us all the same, and that is one of the truest things I have learned in my life. The simple genius of the devil is to trick you into thinking he has a different method for every man.
I wish you knew how exceptionally lacking in imagination the devil actually is.”
― K.B. Ezzell, Inferno

“El infierno existe porque existe el miedo”
― Josep Giralt, Sirio Sanguino