Inferno Quotes - Page 3

• I suppose it is submerged realities that give to dreams their curious air of hyper-reality. But perhaps there is something else as well, something nebulous, gauze-like, through which everything one sees in a dream seems, paradoxically, much clearer. A pond becomes a lake, a breeze becomes a storm, a handful of dust is a desert, a grain of sulphur in the blood is a volcanic inferno. What manner of theater is it, in which we are at once playwright, actor, stage manager, scene painter and audience?

  W. G. Sebald

  Dream, Reality, Lakes

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• Donald Trump is an especially depressing phenomena because he is so debased and debasing and millions and millions of people want him to be president. We're seeing how at least whole swathes of white America are becoming your worst nightmare of eternal Zombie High School. Something like a perfect mix of Groundhog Day and The Moronic Inferno. How can it be that a guy who looks like a bloated cadaver pulled from the Gowanus canal, with some rouge on his cheeks and a sticky Something About Mary wig, is actually applauded by his followers for making fun of how other people look?

  Francisco Goldman

  Depressing, Fun, School

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• Hell is out of fashion --institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. . .

  J. G. Ballard

  Fashion, Skulls, Dungeons

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• Society: an inferno of saviors!

  Emile M. Cioran

  Savior

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• It’s like disco inferno up in here

  Rachel Caine

  Disco

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn”, p.24, Allison & Busby

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• 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

  Space, Giving, Midst

  Italo Calvino, Michael Wood, Martin L. McLaughlin (2013). “Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985”, p.13, Princeton University Press

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• New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of bounds, the supreme expression of both the miseries and the splendors of contemporary civilization, the Macedonia of the United States. It meets the most severe test that may be applied to definition of a metropolis - it stays up all night. But also it becomes a small town when it rains.

  John Gunther

  Stars, New York, Rain

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• The world is an inferno. It will burn until every nation has fallen, until all who oppose us are dead, until people see the true light.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Light, People, World

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2012). “Fugitives: Escape from Furnace 4”, p.70, Macmillan

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• It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

  Dan Brown

  Heart, Mind, Age

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.379, Knopf

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• The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel. I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.

  Veronica Roth

  Powerful, Fire, Racing

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• Over the last month I had pulled a woman from a blazing inferno. I had called fire and lighting down on assassins and escaped to safety. I had even killed something that could have been either a dragon or a demon, depending on your point of view. But there in that room was the first time I actually felt like any sort of hero. If you are looking for a reason for the man I would eventually become, if you are looking for a beginning, look there.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Hero, Men, Fire

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.494, Hachette UK

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• No misery or bad situation is ever infinite or final until we make a conscious decision for it to be so. ~ Inferno

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Decision, Finals, Misery

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Inferno: Chronicles of Nick”, p.173, Macmillan

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• I disconnected as a sleepy Seth stepped out of the bedroom. “Who’s Dante? Was that a collect call to the Inferno?” “They won’t accept the charges,” I murmured.

  Richelle Mead

  Sleepy, Bedroom, Accepting

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Succubus Dreams”, p.207, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia. It is what you will, and it withstands all interpretations. It is the last vestige of a dead world or the cradle of a shiny new one. To a lot of people, as to myself, it is just 'home'. It is all these things but one thing - it is never dull.

  Beryl Markham

  Home, People, Justice

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Passion, Men, Light

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• Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Kings, New York, Earthquakes

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• Old school new school need to learn though I burn baby, burn like Disco Inferno Burn slow like blunts with ya-yo Peel more skins than Idaho potato

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Weed, Baby, School

  Song: Who Shot Ya?, Album: Born Again, 1999

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• According to Melissa Mailey, we now live in a world where kings and noblemen rule the roost. And they've turned all of central Europe—our home, now, ours and our children's to come—into a raging inferno. We are surrounded by a Ring of Fire. Well, I've fought forest fires before. So have lots of other men in this room. The best way to fight [such] a fire is to start a counterfire. So my position is simple. I say we start the American Revolution—a hundred and fifty years ahead of schedule!

  Michael Stearns

  Kings, Children, Home

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• Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem," he says.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Fire, Catching On

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.23, Scholastic Inc.

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• Soul. The word rebounded to me, and I wondered, as I often had, what it was exactly. People talked about it all the time, but did anybody actually know? Sometimes I'd pictured it like a pilot light burning inside a person--a drop of fire from the invisible inferno people called God. Or a squashy substance, like a piece of clay or dental mold, which collected the sum of a person's experiences--a million indentations of happiness, desperation, fear, all the small piercings of beauty we've ever known.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Fire, Light, People

  Sue Monk Kidd (2006). “The Mermaid Chair”, p.132, Penguin

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• Rather than starting a new inferno in Iraq, our energies would have been better spent in extinguishing the existing fire in Palestine.

  Iqbal Sacranie

  Fire, Usa, Iraq

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• I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.

  Anais Nin

  Believe, Night, Evil

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• When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.

  Dante Alighieri

  Journey, Doe, Half

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

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• The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.

  Dante Alighieri

  Lying, Men, Fame

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.208, Penguin

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• Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle—like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.

  Dan Brown

  Morning, Block, Stress

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.377, Knopf

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