Inferno Quotes

“Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso

“Love insists the loved loves back”
― Dante Alighieri

“They yearn for what they fear for.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

“I felt for the tormented whirlwinds
Damned for their carnal sins
Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.”
― Dante Alighieri

“But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“Let's not be afraid of stilling our mind and having mercy with ourselves, and allowing us patience to recover from our dazzling unawareness and ignorance or from the inferno of overwhelming hassle. ("The umbrella")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“Noi leggeveamo un giorno per diletto
Di Lancialotto, come amor lo strinse;
Soli eravamo e senza alcun sospetto
Per più fiate gli occhi ci sospinse
Quella lettura, e scolorocci il viso;
Ma solo un punto fu quel che ci vinse.
Quando leggemmo il disiato riso
Esser baciato da cotanto amante,
Questi, che mai da me non fia diviso,
La bocca mi baciò tutto tremante.
Galeotto fu il libro e chi lo scrisse:
Quel giorno più non vi leggemmo avante."

""We were reading one day, to pass the time,
of Lancelot, how love had seized him.
We were alone, and without any suspicion
And time and time again our eyes would meet
over that literature, and our faces paled,
and yet one point alone won us.
When we had read how the desired smile
was kissed by so true a lover,
This one, who never shall be parted from me,
kissed my mouth, all a-tremble.
Gallehault was the book and he who wrote it
That day we read no further.”
― Dante Alighieri

“Through me is the way to the city of woe.
Through me is the way to sorrow eternal.
Through me is the way to the lost below. Justice moved my architect supernal.
I was constructed by divine power,
supreme wisdom, and love primordial.
Before me no created things were.
Save those eternal, and eternal I abide.
Abandon all hope, you who enter.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“There is no greater sorrow
than thinking back upon a happy time
in misery--”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

“The well heeded well heard.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

“seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

“These dwell among the blackest souls, loaded down deep by sins of differing types. If you sink far enough, you'll see them all.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“I could hear the chaotic laughter trailing behind me. It turned the ageless trees into a menace. They loomed around me, while hiding him. The branches tore at my skin in an effort to bind me, while weeds sought to shackle my ankles, so that I could go no further. The pain they caused was minor, when I compared it to the searing inferno at my core.”
― J.D. Stroube, Caged in Darkness

“your soul has been assailed by cowardice,
which often weighs so heavily on a man--
distracting him from honorable trials--
as phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“I'm a fan of the truth," she replied forcefully, "even if it's painfully hard to accept.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“Gonindu-ne-o prin cetăți închise
din loc în loc, va-mpinge-o-n Iad de veci,
de unde-ntâi invidia ne-o trimise.

Spre-a ta scăpare cred și judec deci
să-ți fiu conducător, și te voi scoate
de-aici, făcând prin loc etern să treci,

s-auzi cum urlă desperate gloate,
să vezi și-antice duhuri osândite,
ce-a doua moarte-a lor și-o strigă toate.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Non isperate mai veder lo cielo:
i’ vegno per menarvi a l’altra riva
ne le tenebre etterne, in caldo e ’n gelo.”
― Dante, Inferno

“I am the shade. Through the dolent city, i flee. Through the eternal woe, i take flight..”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“Și ca și-acel ce nu mai vrea ce-a vrut,
schimbând prin noul gând pe cele-avute,
așa că lasă totul ce-a-nceput,

așa și eu sub poala coastei mute
gândind îmi mistuii întreaga vrere
ce-ntâi, spre-a-ncepe, atât mi-a fost de iute.

-De-ți prind din vorbe bine-a ta durere-
răspunse umbra cea mărinimoasă-
ți-e sufletul curpins de-acea scădere,

ce-abate-ades de ținta sa frumoasă
pe om, astfel (oprind) ca năzărirea
nălucii lui pe-o bestie fricoasă.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“(Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World

“Vai via ora," mi disse in fretta, "ti ho detto quello che volevi sapere. Di qui il coro degli angeli, di là la gola dell'inferno.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Santa santa non sono mai stata... Ma all'inferno no, per favore, ché la dannazione eterna non credo mi si addica.”
― Lucrezia Monti, La Principessa e l'Orso

“Cosí s'osserva in me lo contrapasso. (Thus is observed in me the counterpoise)”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“C'è sempre buona compagnia all'inferno, perché tutti ci sbarazziamo delle persone inutili eppure, chissà, qualcun altro troverà il modo di amarle." Si fermò. "Nessuno si sbarazza delle persone utili. Quella è la prigionia. Non devi mai essere bravo a fare qualcosa che non hai più voglia di fare.”
― Walt Popester, Evaristo - E il Kommando Micetti Assassini: Volume 1 della Saga di Evaristo

“Have you noticed that Amsterdam's concentric canals resemble the circle of Hell?”
― Albert Camus, The Fall