Dante Alighieri Quotes

When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one's shoulder for eternity.

Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.

Those who are not Christians go to a place of suffering and torment called hell.

I don't know, but I've been told, the streets of hell are paved with gold.

O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple Hell?

The fear of Hell is a very powerful motivation.

When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates.

You see, I needed to go to Hell.

There is a place in Hell called the Malebolge.

Hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple dumpling.

If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is a place of suffering, a place of fear, a place of war and violence, a place of judgment and no justice, a place of punishment that never ends.

And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.

Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.

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

In hell there is no retention.

For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

There is a dreadful Hell, And everlasting pains; There sinners must with devils dwell In darkness, fire, and chains.

What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.

I don't believe there's a hole in the ground with demons in it but I could be wrong. Hell is all around us - it's the way we treat each other and the way we treat the Earth. We already live in it.

He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.