Dante Alighieri Quotes

Through me you go to the grief wracked city; Through me you go to everlasting pain; Through me you go a pass among lost souls. Justice inspired my exalted Creator: I am a creature of the Holiest Power, of Wisdom in the Highest and of Primal Love. Nothing till I was made was made, only eternal beings. And I endure eternally. Surrender as you enter, every hope you have.

~ Dante Alighieri

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

~ Dante Alighieri

I am the way into the city of woe,I am the way into eternal pain,I am the way to go among the lost.Justice caused my high architect to move,Divine omnipotence created me,The highest wisdom, and the primal love.Before me there were no created thingsBut those that last forever—as do I.Abandon all hope you who enter here.

~ Dante Alighieri

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.

~ Dante Alighieri

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

~ Dante Alighieri

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

~ Dante Alighieri

Noi siam venuti al loco ov'i' t'ho dettoche tu vedrai le genti dolorosec'hanno perduto il ben de l'intelletto.We to the place have come, where I have told theeThou shalt behold the people dolorousWho have foregone the good of intellect.

~ Dante Alighieri

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

~ Dante Alighieri

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.

~ Dante Alighieri

Haste denies all acts their dignity.

~ Dante Alighieri

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

~ Dante Alighieri

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

~ Dante Alighieri

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

~ Dante Alighieri

Nature is the art of God.

~ Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

~ Dante Alighieri

Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

~ Dante Alighieri

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

~ Dante Alighieri

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

~ Dante Alighieri

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

~ Dante Alighieri

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

~ Dante Alighieri

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

~ Dante Alighieri

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

~ Dante Alighieri