Inferno

Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

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.

Remember tonight...for it's the beginning of forever. - Dante Alighieri

Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality. - Sienna Brooks

Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle—like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.

I believe that thinking about the problem … is your problem.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their silence at times of crisis.

I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.

Dante's poem, Langdon was now reminded, was not so much about the misery of hell as it was about the power of the human spirit to endure any challenge, no matter how daunting.

The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist

But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't.

I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.

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

Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity

Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther

.."consider this. It took the earth's population thousand of years-from the early dawn of man all the way to the early 1800s-to reach one billion people. Then astoundingly, it took only about a hundred years to double the population to two billion in the 1920s. After that, it took a mere fifty years for the population to double again to four billion in the 1970s. As you can imagine, we're well on track to reach eight billion very soon. Just today, the human race added another quarter-billion people to planet Earth. A quarter million. And this happens ever day-rain or shine. Currently every year er 're adding the equivalent of the entire country of Germany.

It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

The human mind has a primitive ego defince mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It's called denial.

Never forget you are a miracle

Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.

She saved my life...and I’ve ruined hers. They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had nothing to say. They were strangers, after all, on a brief and bizarre journey that had just reached a fork in the road, each of them now needing to find seperate paths.

Ah, yes" Langdon said with a knowing smile. "Who better than a bunch of celibate octogeneraians to tell the world how to have sex?" Sinskey was liking the professor more and more every second.