Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“It was as if Dante had recommended some lost soul in the Inferno to occupy his mind by knitting jumpers.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“(Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place'… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno… — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
“Deep blackness waits outside; a veiled inferno it attempts to hide. We see no more than dark clouds growing, but set inside,… — Craig Froman Copy Share Image
“Hell in life indicates a state of suffering, of agony, of torture (by others, by circumstances, or by ourselves), and of insipid… — Jacqueline Ripstein Copy Share Image
“Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the… — D.S. Wrights Copy Share Image
I groaned. Man and his codes! Even in a lawless inferno, man has to give himself some honor, he's so desperate to… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Considered purely as effects-driven filmed drama, 'The Day After Tomorrow' checks in somewhere in the middle of one of Hollywood's most absurd… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
“we are burning like a chicken wing left on the grill of an outdoor barbecue we are unwanted and burning we are… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
“There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slime they speak their piece, end it, and start again: 'Sullen were we in… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
In a way, that's also a recognition that Dante needs Virgil and that the Inferno needs the Aeneid and that the epic… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Over the last month I had pulled a woman from a blazing inferno. I had called fire and lighting down on assassins… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Wherever there is injustice, there is anger, and anger is like gasoline - if you spray it around and somebody lights a… — Scilla Elworthy Copy Share Image
In a sense, I never got over Robert Lowell's History. A flawed, infinitely brilliant project I never tire of going back to.… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
“A bonfire of the books. The thought curdles me. Some say my species is imperishable, but they lie, for ours is a… — James Morrow Copy Share Image
“Dante laughed. "No cold soup, no goat cheese. I'll make a mental note. And no Gottfried Curse." "And for you it's no… — Yvonne Woon Copy Share Image
Countless candles dribbled with hot wax, and their flames, like little flags, fluttered in the unchartered currents of air. Thousands of lamps,… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“There is a particular circle of hell not mentioned in Dante's famous book. It is called comportment, and it exists in schools… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Noi leggeveamo un giorno per diletto Di Lancialotto, come amor lo strinse; Soli eravamo e senza alcun sospetto Per più fiate gli… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Inferno was for learning about the nature of our sins. Purgatorio is for learning how to overcome our tendencies to fall victim… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
“Götz Bergander, son of Dresden, eyewitness to its suffering, and the first objective historian of its destruction, summed up succinctly but tellingly:… — Frederick Taylor Copy Share Image
