Dante Alighieri Quotes

Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

I do suspect that this world is hell.

Why doesn't that Devil take me with him? It would be much better with him than it is here.

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

There is no redemption from hell.

Because I’ve lost my children, too, and I know the ache that lives inside the heart that no amount of solace or alcohol will squelch. I know what it’s like to have the powers of a god and to not be able to hold the one thing that means the most to me. And if you think for one minute that I would ever serve that to another being, even Artemis, who I’d like to torture for eternity, then go ahead and call down your army on me. I would deserve whatever death they give. (Sin)

I guess that's why they call it Hell.

Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.

And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.

Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.

You heard of hell, well I was sent from it.

Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus? Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris. (It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery)

Hell ain't half full.

If I had a soul, I’d probably wind up in hell anyway.

Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and lie on the bed the way I used to. Please take me home.

There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be as near to hell as they can.

It is not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shall lie roaring perpetually in the flames of hell, and the God of mercy himself shall laugh at them; when...God shall mock them instead of relieving them; when none in heaven or earth can help them but God, and he shall rejoice over them in their calamity

Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people

even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.

We probably in hell already, our dumb asses not knowing.

Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will build into your system, making life feel more and more unbearale. But you won't even notice it coming on, thinking that it is somehow normal, something about getter older, about turning eight or about turning twelve or turning fifteeen, and then one day you realize that your entire life is just awful, not worth living, a horror and a black blot on the white terrain of human existence. One morning you wake up afraid you are going to live.

I'm just trying to get a window seat on the way to Hell.

You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side is smiling because you are playing the game he invented.

When I realize that she is gone, perhaps gone forever, a great void opens up and I feel that I am falling, falling, falling into deep, black space. And this is worse than tears, deeper than regret or pain or sorrow, it is the abyss into which Satan was plunged. There is no climbing back, no ray of light, no sound of human voice or human touch of hand.

It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.