Dante Alighieri Quotes

The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.

I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?

…I am left with lessthan one drop of my blood that does not tremble.I recognize the the signs of the old flame.

Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde

And what will bow your shoulders downwill be the vicious and worthless company with whom you will fall into this abyss.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Oh human creatures, born to soar aloft, Why fall ye thus before a little wind?

From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.

Ail hope abandon ye who enter here.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder.

The experience of this sweet life.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

There is no greater sorrowthan thinking back upon a happy timein misery--

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]

The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.

The path to paradise begins in hell.

High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents must satisfy.

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground

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

Behave like men, and not like witless sheep...

All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

I felt for the tormented whirlwindsDamned for their carnal sinsCommitted when they let their passions rule their reason.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

And all the while one spirit uttered this, The other one did weep so, that, for pity, I swooned away as if I had been dying, And fell, even as a dead body falls.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall our time of joy in wretchedness.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

The fair request ought to be followed by the deed in silence.

The Love that moves the sun and the other stars.

If you, free as you are of every weighthad stayed below, then that would be as strangeas living flame on earth remaining still."And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens.

There is no greater sorrowThan to recall a happy timeWhen miserable.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.

Art as far as it is able follows nature as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be as it were God's grandchild.

Come on, shake off the covers of this sloth, for sitting softly cushioned, or tucked in bed, is no way to win fame.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.

As once I loved you in my mortal flesh, without it now I love you still.

I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.

Haste denies all acts their dignity.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always

your soul is sunken in that cowardice that bears down many men, turning their course and resolution by imagined perils, as his own shadow turns the frightened horse.

Nature is the art of God.

God's greatest gift to manIn all the bounty He was moved to makeThroughout creation-the one gift the mostClose to his goodness and the one He callsMost precious-is free will.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.