“Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.”
― Dan Brown, quote from 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, quote from Inferno
“Remember tonight...for it's the beginning of forever. - Dante Alighieri”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“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”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“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.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“I believe that thinking about the problem … is your problem.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their silence at times of crisis.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“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.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“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”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.”
― Dan Brown, quote from 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, quote from Inferno
“Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“.."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.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain. - Dr. Sienna Brooks”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“When they face desperation... human beings become animals.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“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.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“Never forget you are a miracle”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“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.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“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.”
― Dan Brown, quote from Inferno
“There had been absolutely nothing I could do to cover up the love I had for her, no desires or goals or bodies dense enough to bury the need that had consumed me since the first time I'd glimpsed her. She'd stolen something from me that I'd never get back, something she kept hidden deep beneath the surface in places I doubted either of us could see, in places neither of us could define.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from If Forever Comes
“i'm not asking you fight. all i need is a ride. then you can crawl back under your rock and pretend the rest of the world doesn't exist all you like, but first, get your keys, little girl, we're leaving.”
― Dianne Sylvan, quote from Queen of Shadows
“apático y de la timidez que era el resultado”
― Benito Pérez Galdós, quote from Fortunata and Jacinta
“[[diving into the wreck]]
First having read the book of myths,
and loaded the camera,
and checked the edge of the knife-blade
[...]
And now: it is easy to forget
what I came for
among so many who have always
lived here...
[...]
the thing I came for:
the wreck and not the story of the wreck
the thing itself and not the myth
the drowned face always staring
toward the sun
the evidence of damage
worn by salt and away into this threadbare beauty
the ribs of the disaster
curving their assertion
among the tentative haunters.
[...]
We are, I am, you are
by cowardice or courage
the one who find our way
back to this scene
carrying a knife, a camera
a book of myths
in which
our names do not appear.”
― Adrienne Rich, quote from Diving Into the Wreck
“Now these are the Laws of the Jungle, and many and mighty are they; But the head and the hoof of the Law and the haunch and the hump is—Obey!”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Second Jungle Book
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