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Quotes About Perdition

There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish he was dead.' Influence is perdition.
~ Cynthia Ozick
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]
~ Dante Alighieri
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
~ Dante Alighieri
Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?
~ Aeschylus
La mujer puede ser la ayuda del hombre y la inspiración de su vida, pero también puede ser su perdición. Puede arrastrarlo al nivel de la bestia.
~ Agatha Christie
Do the two girls run around together? I think not. I think they go their separate and slightly divergent roads to perdition. Vivian is spoiled, exacting, smart and quite ruthless. Carmen is a child who likes to pull wings off flies. Neither of them has any more moral sense than
~ Raymond Chandler
Do the two girls run around together? I think not. I think they go their separate and slightly divergent roads to perdition. Vivian is spoiled, exacting, smart and quite ruthless. Carmen is a child who likes to pull wings off flies. Neither of them has any more moral sense than a cat. Neither have I. No Sternwood ever had. Proceed.
~ Raymond Chandler
Perdition and evil make life fun, but conflicts eventually arise.
~ Ricardo Piglia
ego —! There's nothing more powerful when it comes to destroying a man, my friend. Nothing else that would assure his swift and inglorious descent into Pathalam, the goriest underworld!
~ Kalki
Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.
~ George Barrell Cheever
They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil.
~ Paul the Apostle
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]
~ Dante Alighieri
Abandon every hope, you who enter.
~ Dante Alighieri
Abandon hope all ye who enter here.
~ Dante Alighieri
En el momento en el que la autocomplacencia se instala, las cosas empiezan a ir mal y casi siempre conduce a la perdición.
~ Alex Ferguson
es lo que el pánico hace y lo que suele llevar a la perdición a quienes lo padecen: les hace creer que, dentro del mal o el peligro, en él están sin embargo a salvo.
~ Javier Marías
Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate. (Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here)
~ Alighieri Dante
Lucifer was his name in Perdition. In Heaven, he's Samael.
~ Richard Kadrey
have pity upon those hungering ones immediately around you who must find life through your sermon or they will never find it at all. If some of your hearers sleep on they will of necessity wake up in eternal perdition, for they hear no other helpful voice.
~ Richard Lischer
If you stay on this path as long as I have, you'll soon learn that the road to providence leads right through perdition. And along that road, the devil's waiting to collect his pound of flesh.
~ Jay Grewal, A Slave to Want
THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION IS ONE the of the most controversial events in history. Some partisans proclaim that it set humankind on the road to prosperity and progress. Others insist that it led to perdition.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
La revolución agrícola es uno de los acontecimientos más polémicos de la historia. Algunos partidarios proclaman que puso a la humanidad en el camino de la prosperidad y el progreso. Otros insisten que la llevó a la perdición. Fue el punto de inflexión, dicen, en el que los sapiens se desprendieron de su simbiosis íntima con la naturaleza y salieron corriendo hacia la codicia y la alienación. Fuera
~ Yuval Noah Harari
He beheld Lourdes, contaminated by Mammon, turned into a spot of abomination and perdition, transformed into a huge bazaar, where everything was sold, masses and souls alike!
~ Émile Zola
Quien pretende ser bueno en todo momento, está destinado a la perdición en medio del enorme número de quienes no lo son".
~ Robert Greene