Quotes About Underworld

If all the fish in the sea kept their mouths shut, they'd never get caught" is an often repeated mantra in the world of organized crime.

I wasn't aware of it at the time, but I was a big favorite with the Mafia.

You could bury people one hundred floors down, and a whole dead world could be underneath the living one.

Darling Cockroaches of the Highest Order, hard underthings of hard underworlds, I am utterly suspicious of advice.

Those who tow'rds Acheron do not descend.

once you've crawled into what's commonly thought of as the sordid underbelly of life, you realize it's all just different versions of normal.

What the myth founds is a double existence between the upper world and the underworld: a dimension of death is introduced into life, and a dimension of life is introduced into death.

La littérature, comme le crime organisé, a son réseau.

Cerebos, the three-headed guardian of Hell.

For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

A laugh-out-loud moment before she would send them to the underworld; or it would have been if she could still laugh. She's tried to remember how but she honestly couldn't make the sound anymore, another strange side effect.

A master of spin, Hermes escorted dead souls into the underworld. The ancients worshipped him as the god of travel, speech, roads, boundaries, sleep, dream, and the nameless places that fall between here and there. Two of those in-between spots deserve special recognition: the shadowy realm between wakefulness and sleep, and the transition between life and death.

Organized crime is just the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

Only criminals want to use cash.

big reason this criminal enterprise has been so successful is that it would require the press and the voters to "agree" both parties are thoroughly corrupt. Honest reporting about this "Criminal Underground

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!

For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

I'm still as fascinated with the music business as ever. I'd love to do an electronic album like Prodigy or Underworld. I really like that sort of music.

Pushers don't pay taxes.

It made her smile a little at how fitting it was to think that an entrance to Hades could be somewhere in the financial district of Manhattan.

O z?a Persefono, Mog?a?e? tak wielu ?zam da? up?yna? p?ono?

Do you have any idea who you've been dealing with? This is big-time! Interstate! Federal! You're not in a precinct, are you? This goes way beyond you! This goes deep! We've been on to this guy for a long time, Shaka. The Virginia Mafia! Nobody fucks with them! We've got him in a room down the hall--this guy gave up his own sister! You're lucky you got out alive!

I do a lot of lecturing, at colleges and police schools, and I always get the same questions: 'Do they really kill you? What do they do with the money? How do you become a wiseguy?'