Inferno Quotes - Page 2

• The ecclesiastical description of Hell is that of a horrible place of fire and torment; in Dante's Inferno, and in northern climes, it was thought to be an icy cold region, a giant refrigerator.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Fire, Giants, Icy

  "The Satanic Bible". Book by Anton Szandor LaVey, 1969.

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• This miserable way
  is taken by the sorry souls of those
  who lived without disgrace and without praise.
  They now commingle with the coward angels,
  the company of those who were not rebels
  nor faithful to their God, but stood apart.
  The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened,
  have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them -
  even the wicked cannot glory in them.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sorry, Taken, Angel

  Dante Alighieri, “Inferno Canto 03”

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• As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

  Dante Alighieri

  Flower, Night, White

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: a verse translation”

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• Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

  Dan Brown

  Creative, Mind, Purpose

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.296, Knopf

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• The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Adept of the joys of watching, connoisseur of empathy, the flâneur finds the world 'picturesque.

  Susan Sontag

  Cities, Empathy, Joy

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.50, Macmillan

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• Anger is like gasoline. If you spray it around and somebody lights a match, you've got an inferno. [But] if we can put our anger inside an engine, it can drive us forward.

  Scilla Elworthy

  Change, Light, Gasoline

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• I think there are so many guys coming up that are ready to bust loose. All they need is that one little flame of confidence that starts the inferno. And when you get those guys, once it starts happening, nothing can stop you. And you can tell which guys have it. You always know which guys have it.

  Chris Jericho

  Thinking, Flames, Guy

  Source: www.wwe.com

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• Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

  Emma Goldman

  Marriage, Motto, Force

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Marriage and Love”, p.4, The Floating Press

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• The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Civilization, Cities

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew anywhere.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Technology, Hatred, Sadism

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• The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Merit, Hell

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?

  Arun Manilal Gandhi

  Cutting, Fire, Firsts

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• Hail, mute devil! You are the most intense animal. An eternal mystic of the fleshly inferno.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Animal, Devil, Intense

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• Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!

  Erica Jong

  Fire, Licking, Toes

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• Countless candles dribbled with hot wax, and their flames, like little flags, fluttered in the unchartered currents of air. Thousands of lamps, naked, or shuttered behind coloured glass, burned with their glows of purple, amber, grass-green, blue, blood red and even grey. The walls of Gormenghast were like the walls of paradise or like the walls of an inferno. The colours were devilish or angelical according to the colour of the mind that watched them. They swam, those walls, with the hues of hell, with the tints of Zion. The breasts of the plumaged seraphim; the scales of Satan.

  Mervyn Peake

  Wall, Purple, Glasses

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Gormenghast”, p.226, The Overlook Press

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• I groaned. Man and his codes! Even in a lawless inferno, man has to give himself some honor, he's so desperate to separate himself from the beasts.

  Steve Toltz

  Men, Giving, Honor

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.3, Spiegel & Grau

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• Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dante's work on the modern world.

  Dan Brown

  Appreciate, Florence, World

  "Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code sequel Inferno revealed by readers" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2013.

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• My hell is going to be the stairmaster wing of Dante's inferno, where they're gonna tape my feet to the pedals and the only music I get is Michael Bolton karaoke style.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Wings, Feet, Style

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• I felt what I was trying to do was make people realize that comics could be deep. I stopped myself in the middle of saying that because the Bazooka Joe thing I do with Dante's Inferno, that was just a goof. I wasn't trying to make people look at Bazooka Joe more seriously. But in my mind it's always been important.

  Robert Sikoryak

  People, Mind, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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

  Way, Helping, Comedy

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. February 4, 2010.

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• In a way, that's also a recognition that Dante needs Virgil and that the Inferno needs the Aeneid and that the epic needs a model and that for Dante to write this great poem he needs someone to come before him and he turns to Virgil's text, especially book six where Aeneas goes down into the underworld. And for me, that's a model of the poet's relationship to previous poetry, to another poetry as calling out for guidance.

  Edward Hirsch

  Book, Writing, Epic

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• That shot in "Into the Inferno" somehow popped up while my editor and I were viewing the footage. I immediately said, "That looks like the opening shot because the camera approaches the action very slowly and we have enough time to insert some of the main credits into it." So it was a practical choice. At the same time, you see these tiny figures standing at the rim of something, and all of a sudden, the camera rises further and you find yourself looking straight down into an inferno.

  Werner Herzog

  Editors, Choices, Finding Yourself

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• The universe couldn't care less about us. I say this very clearly in the film [ "Into the Inferno"]: our planet is "indifferent to scurrying roaches, retarded reptiles and vapid humans alike."

  Werner Herzog

  Vapid, Roaches, Reptiles

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Sergio Trujillos choreography adds coals to the inferno, with movement that plain just doesnt stop. We know from Jersey Boys that he can capture this style, but in Memphis, he kicks it up towards art, playing with the authentic touches to add some hits of Fosse, or riffs from modern dance that take us just that extra step we need.

  Richard Ouzounian

  Art, Boys, Style

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• A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.

  Carl Jung

  Giving Up, Passion, Men

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