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Quotes About Infernal

Technological capitalism is an infernal machine. It always has its way with us. If it doesn't dismantle the Postal Service from without, it will steal its soul from within. The attachment of Americans to their post office is pure nostalgia. It's the double vision of a people whose hearts don't like what their desires have created.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Un atributo de lo infernal es la irrealidad, un atributo que parece mitigar sus terrores y que los agrava tal vez.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Un atribut al lucrurilor infernale e irealitatea, un atribut ce pare s? mic?oreze spaimele pe care le provoac?, dar poate c? le spore?te.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Well, what happens with the River of Hades in the end? -Not a thing. It's an infernal punishment precisely because nothing happens.
~ K?b? Abe
Pray stop your infernal whispering. You sound like a pack of nuns planning a murder.
~ Karen Hawkins
Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
~ Thomas Carlyle
Patriotism is a myth conceived by those old rogues to draw us into the infernal game. Let them fight as they will, but we want no part of it.
~ Wilbur Smith
It may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God's people praying.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Podés reírte y ser cruel y sádica y hacer cosas increíbles y desenfrenadas y reírte aún más pero no por ello dejar de saber que te reís dentro de un círculo incandescente, infernal, y aun ebria, aun fornicando con cuatro marineros, saber, con un saber que viene de que vos sos vos, saber que se juega con lo terrible, que se trata de algo eminentemente dramático y esencial.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Never keep a lawyer waiting. They have friends in low and infernal places.
~ David Weber
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Asmodai, the demon of wrath and destruction. Master of all malevolent deities and governor of hellish legions, a monster with the three heads of a bull, a ram, and a man, the tail of a serpent, and the webbed feet of a goose. The monster sat astride an infernal dragon and held a lance bearing the war standard of hell. The three heads simultaneously breathed fire from their mouths while they surveyed the room. A television cameraman engulfed in flames ran screaming toward the window.
~ Yasutaka Tsutsui
Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell?
~ Emily Bronte
She stood with her arms hugged about herself, her brows drawn together in icy disdain, black and arched, delicate as the tips of a nymph's infernal wings. "Haps I am a witch," she said. "I tell thee true, Green Sire—I have cheated demons, and still I am alive.
~ Laura Kinsale
Por que la única arma del hombre es ese coraje que no retrocede ni ante las mismisimas puertas del Infierno y ante el cual nada pueden ni siquiera las legiones infernales.
~ Robert E. Howard
I saw the infernal Thing blocking my path in the twilight. The dead travel fast, and by short cuts unknown to ordinary coolies. I laughed aloud a second time, and checked my laughter suddenly, for I was afraid I was going mad.
~ Rudyard Kipling
The acid of fury ran through him, eating away the brute patience and sluggishness that had made a cipher of Gully Foyle, precipitating a chain of reactions that would make an infernal machine of Gully Foyle. He was dedicated.
~ Alfred Bester
The dealer gives his blood-stained gold to support the pulpit, and the pulpit, in return, covers his infernal business With the garb of Christianity.
~ Anthony J. Carter
He ended, and his words impression leftOf much amazement to th' infernal crew,Distracted and surpris'd with deep dismayAt these sad tidings.Milton'sParadise Regained,b. i.3.
~ Samuel Johnson
Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work. That cheerful eye, under the influence of slavery, soon became red with rage; that voice, made all of sweet accord, changed to one of harsh and horrid discord; and that angelic face gave place to that of a demon.
~ Frederick Douglass
But alas! this kind heart had but a short time to remain such. The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands, and soon commenced its infernal work. That cheerful eye, under the influence of slavery, soon became red with rage; that voice, made all of sweet accord, changed to one of harsh and horrid discord; and that angelic face gave place to that of a demon.
~ Frederick Douglass
Lastly- and this was the most pitiless torture of all- we heard the rain and it was not raining! This was an infernal invention... Oh, I knew well enough how Erik obtained it! He filled with little stones a very long and narrow box, broken up inside with wooden and metal projections. The stones, in falling, struck against these projections and rebounded from one to another; and the result was a series of pattering sounds that exactly imitated a rainstorm.
~ Gaston Leroux