134 Quotes About 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.

If the devil has a pitchfork and the grim reaper has a scythe, agriculture must be a huge industry in the underworld.

There he died; and as thou seest me, sawI the three fall one by one, between the fifthday and the sixth: whence I betook me,already blind, to groping over each, and forthree days called them, after they were dead;then fasting had more power than grief.

La oss derfor lide uten håp om en eneste varig glede i dette livet siden vi, mine brødre, allerede er i helvete.

El infierno existe porque existe el miedo

Hell is nothing but a place we wish God has created for our enemies, we ourselves think that he will ultimately show some kind of clemency towards us

Hell was invented to scare to death the unruly human mind and bring it to obedience.

Only seconds slip by without me scrambling for the aid of someone better, more knowledgeable, to walk beside. Writers are good for that. They like nothing more than to tell you what they know. Dorothy Sayers, with all her essays and treatises, was good for that. Are women human? What constitutes the mind of the Maker? How did Dante survive the Inferno? Ask Dorothy; she’ll tell you and gladly.

Hades is evolved to the highest state of simplicity.