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“Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is the isolation that comes from being misunderstood, It can make people lose their grasp on reality.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their silence at times of crisis.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown....and pray for an exit”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“When they face desperation... human beings become animals.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“Never forget you are a miracle”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende
prese costui de la bella persona
che mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende.

Amor, che a nullo amato amar perdona,
Mi prese del costui piacer sì forte,
Che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona..."

"Love, which quickly arrests the gentle heart,
Seized him with my beautiful form
That was taken from me, in a manner which still grieves me.

Love, which pardons no beloved from loving,
took me so strongly with delight in him
That, as you see, it still abandons me not...”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“From there we came outside and saw the stars”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Because your question searches for deep meaning,
I shall explain in simple words”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“But the stars that marked our starting fall away.
We must go deeper into greater pain,
for it is not permitted that we stay.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the
other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“My thoughts were full of other things When I wandered off the path.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
[Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“So many times a man's thoughts will waver, That it turns him back from honored paths, As false sight turns a beast, when he is afraid.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“These dwell among the blackest souls, loaded down deep by sins of differing types. If you sink far enough, you'll see them all.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.”
― C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Any fool can make a rule
And any fool will mind it.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Journal #14

“Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse. Why is it not more apt to anticipate and provide for reform? Why does it not cherish its wise minority? Why does it cry and resist before it is hurt? Why does it not encourage its citizens to be on the alert to point out its faults, and do better than it would have them?”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. ”
― Henry David Thoreau

“What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?”
― Henry David Thoreau, Thoreau Journal 9

“Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.”
― Henry David Thoreau