Dante Alighieri Quotes

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

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

He is not always at ease who laughs.

But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.

In His will, our peace.

Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness

The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.

I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.

As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.

O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!

My course is set for an uncharted sea.

He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.

This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

I love to doubt as well as know.

Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.

This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.

Infinite goodness has such wide arms.

Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.

I wept not — so to stone I grew within.

Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.

Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.

The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.

Deed done is well begun.

I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.

Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.

A rapid bolt will rend the clouds apart, and every single White be seared by wounds. I tell you this. I want it all to hurt.

As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

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

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

I found myself within a forest dark.

So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.

From there we came outside and saw the stars

He who know most grieves most for wasted time.

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.

There is a place in Hell called the Malebolge.

Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.

Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.

That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.

If you're asking for a date, forget it. 'Cause I make it a point not to go out with women who shoot me in the head!

But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars

And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.