I am the shade. Through the docent city, I flee. Through the eternal woe, I take flight.

— Dan Brown

I could hear the chaotic laughter trailing behind me. It turned the ageless trees into a menace. They loomed around me, while hiding him. The branches tore at my skin in an effort to bind me, while weeds sought to shackle my ankles, so that I could go no further. The pain they caused was minor, when I compared it to the searing inferno at my core.

— J.D. Stroube

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

— Dante Alighieri

If love is a flame, I am an inferno...

— Lillian Strange

If passion was a substance I would say it is dark brown, and then blood-red. It's like wet grass, tons of it soaked in mud. It's warm, and it stinks like shit, and it's unaccountably and endlessly good. Furthermore, it's thick, and it goes on for miles, and it isn't so much deep as bottomless, and it holds you in its grip, you never drown. And then it goes. That's all you know.

— Eileen Myles

It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Tourist

— Dan Brown

It’s not by accident that people talk of a state of confusion as not being able to see the wood for the trees, or of being out of the woods when some crisis is surmounted. It is a place of loss, confusion, terror and anger, a place where you can, like Dante, find yourself going down into Hell. But if it’s any comfort, the dark wood isn’t just that. It’s also a place of opportunity and adventure. It is the place in which fortunes can be reversed, hearts mended, hopes reborn.

— Amanda Craig

(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.

— E.A. Bucchianeri

Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow wealthy and famous if he doesn't contribute to either, the good or evil.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Some angels are too good to live their entire lives in this inferno. They come to Earth for only a short time because they have a mission.

— Cristiane Serruya