Facilis decensus averni. The descent into hell is easy. — Virgil
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs. — William Blake
What is divine escapes men's notice because of their incredulity. — Heraclitus
Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire. — Omar Khayyam
Devils used to be God's angels that fell from the top. There is no diversity cos we're burnin in the melting pot. — Immortal Technique
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. — Mark Twain
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. — Peter Ustinov
Hell was OK, until some wise guy went to heaven and came back — Buddhadasa
Things divine are not attainable by mortals who understand sensual things. — Zoroaster
Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers. — John Milton
Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul,
Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee,
Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine! — Joseph Addison
Divine Love Quotes
Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love. — Swami Vivekananda
Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity. — Anne Lamott
Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve. — Sivananda
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems of sacrifice and adoration, or a thorny crown, filled with the cruel briars of unbelief, or selfishness, and sin. — Aimee Semple McPherson
The most holy and necessary practice in our spiritual life is the presence of God. That means finding constant pleasure in His divine company, speaking humbly and lovingly with him in all seasons, at every moment, without limiting the conversation in any way. — Brother Lawrence
The greatest romance is with the Infinite.
You have no idea how beautiful life can be.
When you suddenly find God everywhere,
when He comes and talks to you and guides you,
the romance of divine love has begun. — Paramahansa Yogananda
I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love. — Sri Yukteswar Giri
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. — Francis of Assisi
God gives you His spiritual ideas, and in turn, they give you daily supplies. Never ask for tomorrow: it is enough that divine Love is an ever-present help; and if you wait, never doubting, you will have all you need every moment. — Mary Baker Eddy
Divine Beauty Quotes
It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. — Swami Vivekananda
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell. — Walt Whitman
What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine. — Beatrix Potter
Do not hurt anyone with your speech, for the divine dwells in every heart.
I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell — Walt Whitman
You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are! — Eckhart Tolle
Tranquility is the Truth, Truth is beauty beauty is happiness and bliss is divine — Chinmayananda Saraswati
In spirituality the vehicle of faith runs on divine love.
Everything is not black-and-white . I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there's a genesis for every event in our lives. There's some divine order to it, whether it's ugly or beautiful. — Isaiah Washington
I, the fiery life of divine wisdom, I ignite the beauty of the plains, I sparkle the water, I burn in the sun, and the moon, and the stars. — Hildegard of Bingen
The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance. — John Vianney
As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience. — Wayne Dyer
Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries. — Eugenio Montale
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall? — Dante Alighieri
The devil is not as black as he is painted. — Dante Alighieri
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
Remember tonight...for it's the beginning of forever. - Dante Alighieri — Dan Brown
For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble. — Dante Alighieri
We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous. — Max Hastings
The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular. — Roberto Benigni
He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. — Dante Alighieri
I saw within Its depth how It conceives
All things in a single volume bound by Love
of which the universe is the scattered leaves. — Dante Alighieri
I found myself within a forest dark. — Dante Alighieri
Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. — Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri was not only a Christian poet or a priest, he was a man. He was a real poet. We can understand that the goal of Divine Comedy is beauty. You don't need also to understand Italian or to know Italian, because when Dante's writing, when we recite Dante out loud, it explodes a cosmos of illumination like to recite music, a symphony. — Roberto Benigni
The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as explained, loses the tree and water of life at the beginning of Genesis and gets them back at the end of Revelation. — Northrop Frye
A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of 'The Inferno,' 'The Divine Comedy,' to help guide him through the underworld. — Edward Hirsch
the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man; it is the sublime vision, which cannot be studied, but must ever be celestially granted. In the comic the gods see their own being reflected as in a mirror, and while the tragic poet is bound by strict laws, they will allow the comic artist a freedom as unlimited as their own. — Isak Dinesen
I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy. — Ba Jin
If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs. — Joshua Mohr
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
I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more. — Dante Alighieri
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms... — Joseph Campbell
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