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Quotes About Infernal

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
~ Virgil
limestone lies about the eroded land like schools of sunning dolphin, gray channeled backs humped at the infernal sky.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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, River God
His Infernal Excellency," he declared, "the ambassador of Hell.
~ China Mieville
A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I am not a good pleader', he said; 'being too infernal conscious of my own dignity. The dignified fool, Demelza, gets nowhere beside the suave flattering rogue.
~ Winston Graham
Occasionally, there are battles in the sky. One likes to imagine the angels are always triumphant. One does not like to think of the ancient and terrible scales balancing the infernal and divine as wobbling back and forth. Tilting freely, to and fro. One does not like to think that sometimes it is the angel that falls.
~ Holly Black
Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than the supposed demise of the Tasmanian Aborigines.
~ Richard Flanagan
The Malus Codicum. It was an infernal book, thrice damned. I knew of no other copy in existence. One half of the Inquisition would kill me to get their hands on it, the other half would burn me for having it in my possession.
~ Dan Abnett
This young woman is an infernal abortion. She is Satan incarnate, for who is better to portray Satan than a rebellious woman?
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time. The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
~ John Milton
Infernal world! And thou, profoundest hell, Receive thy new possessor - one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, and a hell of heaven.
~ John Milton
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Everything is hypothetical in hell.
~ Olga Tokarczuk