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Quotes About Inferno

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage. Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.
~ Emma Goldman
Hum. Talvez isso aqui seja o purgatório. E a gente simplesmente não sabe. Espera um minuto. Talvez isso aqui seja o inferno. Não, não, não pode ser o inferno. Tem flores demais. E pôr do sol. E o meu pai. Ele nunca estaria no inferno. Mas quem sabe estamos perto do inferno. Tipo em Nova Jersey.
~ Andrea Portes
It was pure Fire, and the blazes were ferocious, fiercer than she would have expected from Fire alone.
~ Robert Jordan
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
Forse la terra è l'inferno di un altro pianeta.
~ Aldous Huxley
Então pensou que, por mais incompreensível que seja a vida, provavelmente nós a cruzamos com o único desejo de retornar ao inferno que nos gerou, e de viver ali, ao lado de quem, uma vez, nos salvou daquele inferno.
~ Alessandro Baricco
it was as hot as the nails in the planks on the bottom floor of Dante's hell.
~ Dorothea Benton Frank
I've been to Hell. You've only read about it.
~ Doug Wright
Durasse per sempre il buio, nessuno mi riconoscerebbe per donna, inferno per me, male per gli altri.
~ Anna Banti
Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.
~ Harry Houdini
As to his unique opinions on the poem, Pinsky had this to tell his Lincoln Center audience: "This is not a poem about punishment, but the sin of despair… the agony of feeling defective and being defective… I believe Inferno is the best book ever written about depression.
~ Robert Pinsky
Who could put a match to money?
~ Robin White
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
fire breaks out and I see nothing but fire
~ Franz Kafka
Hell is a different place for each man, or each man has his own particular hell. My descent into the inferno is a descent into the irrational level of existence, where the instincts and blind emotions are loose, where one lives by pure impulse, pure fantasy, and therefore pure madness. No, that is not the inferno.
~ Anais Nin
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
Me refiero a su situación, señora -acentuó el señora, lo dejó caer hasta el fondo del infierno: se-ño-ra-, y lo que de ella puede derivarse.
~ Elena Poniatowska
The Devil himself had probably re-designed Hell in the light of the information he had gained from observing airport layouts.
~ Anthony Price
O que sempre tem feito do Estado um inferno na terra tem sido precisamente procurar o homem fazer dele o seu paraíso.
~ Friedrich Hölderlin
Per il Paradiso abbiamo bisogno di Te. L'Inferno ce lo possiamo fare da soli.
~ Margaret Atwood
He has several highly valuable editions that I envy: Doré's Inferno, Dalí's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Picasso's Lysistrata
~ Margaret Atwood
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
We weren't creatures from another planet. We were creatures from Hell.
~ John Marsden
When the flaming pieces descended, those that fell on other buildings set them aflame also, so that the whole surrounding area soon resembled a suburb of hell,
~ Elizabeth Darrell