Divine Comedy Inferno Quotes & Sayings

I couldn't convince her that if I had a book with me, I wasn't lonely. — Alyxandra Harvey

You've got to stay humble and hungry. Just keep working and thank God you have a chance to play in the NBA. — John Wall

The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I 'ultimately' do not take seriously. This increases my freedom; I serve as a temporary volunteer — Ernst Junger

I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments. — Richard Cobden

What is love? Love to me is god. — Kendrick Lamar

Thy soul is by vile fear assailed — Dante Alighieri

It's not by accident that people talk of a state of confusion as not being able to see the wood for the trees, or of being out of the woods when some crisis is surmopunted. It is a place of loss, confusion, terror and anger, a place where you can, like Dante, find yourself going down into Hell. But if it's any comfort, the dark wood isn't just that. It's also a place of opportunity and adventure. It is the place in which fortunes can be reversed, hearts mended, hopes reborn. — Amanda Craig

When I'm looking for an idea, I'll do anything
clean the closet, mow the lawn, work in the garden. — Kevin Henkes

Inferno is the underworld as described in Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy, which portrays hell as an elaborately structured realm populated by entities known as "shades" - bodiless souls trapped between life and death. — Dan Brown

HELEN HAYES: "Which part of The Divine Comedy do you like the most, Tiziano?"
TIZIANO CONTI: "The fifth Canto."
HELEN HAYES: "The Hell, huh?"
TIZIANO CONTI: "L'inferno depicts the truth. — Merce Cardus

I will take my coffee black / never snack / hang with the wolves who are sheepish. — Rufus Wainwright

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite. — Chad Harbach

If I were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one of them. — Michelle Hodkin

Penguins skate. Penguins spin. Penguins love to make you grin. — Mark Iacolina

There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slime
they speak their piece, end it, and start again:
'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;
in the glory of his shining our hearts poured
a bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;
sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'
This litany they gargle in their throats
as if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch. — Dante Alighieri

I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting. — James Earl Jones

Sometimes you just have to stop and take in your surroundings. Really look at where you are in life, otherwise it's just going to pass you by. Regret is a heavy word to live with." - Riley — Justine Winter

Syn watched Day look around at his lack of furniture ... or pictures ... or art ... or decorations ... or any other amenities that made a house a home. "Oh good. It looks like we didn't miss the housewarming party. Are you registered? — A.E. Via

A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of The Inferno, The Divine Comedy, to help guide him through the underworld. — Edward Hirsch

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri

There isn't one celebrity I've worked with who doesn't have major doubts about what impact they are having. I am glad when they question the impact, because it shows they are based firmly in the reality that peacemaking isn't the same as changing a streetlight or distributing mosquito nets. — John Prendergast

Have you heard a cuckoo yet?" I asked Steapa. "Not yet." "It's time to go," I said, "unless you want to kill me?" "Maybe later," Steapa said, "but for the moment I'll fight beside you." And — Bernard Cornwell

The writer, having lost his way in a gloomy forest, and being hindered by certain wild beasts from ascending a mountain, is met by Virgil, who promises to show him the punishments of Hell, and afterwards of Purgatory; and that he shall then be conducted by Beatrice into Paradise. He follows the Roman Poet. — Dante Alighieri