Quotes of Inferno - somelinesforyou

“ Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality. ”

- Arnold Bennett

“ Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ This is our Holocaust Museum. ”

- Ben Vereen

“ When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory. ”

- Robert Brault

“ In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime. ”

- Andre Gide

“ In hell there is no retention. ”

- Cervantes

“ Everybody in the world ought to be sorry for everybody else. We all have our little private hell. ”

- Bettina Von Hutton

“ The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven. ”

- John Milton

“ Happy is the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear, inexorable fate, and the noisy strife of the hell of greed. ”

- Virgil

“ Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame — to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell! ”

- Edward Bulwer Lytton

“ If you're going through hell, keep going. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours. ”

- George Santayana

“ England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses. ”

- John Florio

“ You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell. ”

- Marilyn Manson

“ I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is? ”

- Dizzy Dean

“ All right, then, I'll go to hell. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Hell no, we won't go! ”

- Unknown

“ A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. ”

- Carl Jung

“ Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas. ”

- Davy Crockett

“ I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. ”

- Jean Rostand

“ I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. ”

- Robert Frost

“ I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there. ”

- Arthur Rimbaud

“ Hell is paved with good Samaritans. ”

- William M. Holden

“ Thoughts are like a flame: small thoughts produce small heat, big thoughts make an inferno. ”

- Jim Lu

“ The inventor of the Xerox machine will, I am sure, find a special place reserved for him on one of the inner circles of Dante's Inferno. ”

- Nicholas Goodison

“ I like to get into a situation that is real, where I can say, 'Here's a chance to react as a human being, not some wound-up doll or robot that goes round and round a track, or a cardboard cut-out like the character I played in 'The Towering Inferno'. ”

- William M. Holden

“ To ask brave soldiers to go into the inferno of Afghanistan and Iraq and by virtue of their skill and courage, under the televised scrutiny of a global audience, end the rule of murderers was not easy. Nor was staying on to help the helpless. Yes, the truly frightening alternative was the blustering inaction that we have seen for the past 20 years that led to September 11 and the real quagmire in the Middle East. ”

- Victor Davis Hanson

“ New York… is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation. ”

- Roland Barthes

“ It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. It is obviously much easier to find inhabitants for an inferno or even a purgatorio. ”

- Ezra
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