Kimberly M. > Kimberly's Quotes

“Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso

“When any of our faculties retains
a strong impression of delight or pain,
the soul will wholly concentrate on that,
neglecting any other power it has;
and thus, when something seen
or heard secures the soul in stringent grip,
time moves and yet we do not notice it.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Thus you may understand that love alone
is the true seed of every merit in you,
and of all acts for which you must atone.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio

“We were men once, though we've become trees”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Nature is the art of God.”
― Dante Alighieri

“Haste denies all acts their dignity.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio

“Now our minds are like smoke, then they shall be like fire.”
― Dante Alighieri

“You've built yourselves a god from silver and gold.
How does that differ from idol worship, except
Those people worship one god and you a hundred?”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Che sanza speme vivemo in disio.
That without hope we live in desire.”
― Dante Alighieri

“Not foliage green, but of a fusk colour,
Not branches smooth, but gnarled and intertangled
not apple-tress were there, but thorns with poison.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“If I’m at a party where I’m not enjoying myself, I will put some cookies in my jacket pocket and leave without saying good-bye.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“A lot can be accomplished in the conveyance of eccentricity of speech with word choice and word order. Make good use of those.”
― Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

“That the French have had for centuries an académie that keeps a sharp and controlling eye on their language is why it’s easier for a modern French speaker to read and understand Molière than it is for a modern English speaker to read and understand Shakespeare.”
― Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

“Reading fiction aloud highlights strengths and exposes weaknesses. I heartily recommend it.”
― Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style