Alighieri Quotes

For he, who sees a need, but waits to be asked, is already set on cruel refusal. — Dante Alighieri

Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me. — Dante Alighieri

My senses down, when the true — Dante Alighieri

I made my own house be my gallows. — Dante Alighieri

We were men once, though we've become trees — Dante Alighieri

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense. — Dante Alighieri

My son,
Here may indeed be torment, but not death. — Dante Alighieri

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. — Dante Alighieri

If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven — Dante Alighieri

Doubting pleases me no less than knowing — Dante Alighieri

I make no other answer than the act,
the Master said: "The only fit reply
to a fit request is silence and the fact." [XXIV] — Dante Alighieri

From a little spark may burst a flame. — Dante Alighieri

Only as a man surrenders himself to Devine Love may he hope for salvation, and salvation is open to all who surrender themselves — Dante Alighieri

It bugs the crap out of me when somebody talks more than I do. — Dante Alighieri

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! — Dante Alighieri

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

The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth. — Dante Alighieri

Love insists the loved loves back — Dante Alighieri

Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow. — Dante Alighieri

up yonder in the guzzling Germans' land, — Dante Alighieri

And now I fell as bodies fall,for dead. — Dante Alighieri

So bitter is it, death is little more; — Dante Alighieri

The mouse had fallen in with evil cats. — Dante Alighieri

perhaps the greatest poem ever written — Rod Dreher

Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible. — Dante Alighieri

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment. — Dante Alighieri

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

Haste denies all acts their dignity. — Dante Alighieri

So, now, with me. That brute which knows no peace came ever nearer me and, step by step, drove me back down to where the sun is mute. — Dante Alighieri

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

O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge. — Dante Alighieri

Because your question searches for deep meaning,
I shall explain in simple words — Dante Alighieri

My course is set for an uncharted sea. — Dante Alighieri

Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know. — Dante Alighieri

There is a place in Hell called the Malebolge ... — Dante Alighieri

These have not the hope to die. — Dante Alighieri

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

And we came forth to contemplate the stars. — Dante Alighieri

Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings. — Dante Alighieri

Now you know how much my love for you
burns deep in me
when I forget about our emptiness,
and deal with shadows as with solid things. — Dante Alighieri

No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy. — Dante Alighieri

I love to doubt as well as know. — Dante Alighieri

If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven. — Dante Alighieri

True love is never lost, not even by a bishop's or a priest's curse, that we cannot regain it, so long as hope has still its bit of green. — Dante Alighieri

As at those words did I myself become;
And all my love was so absorbed in Him,
That in oblivion Beatrice was eclipsed. — Dante Alighieri

Lady, you who are so great, so powerful,
that who seeks grace without recourse to you
would have his wish fly upward without wings. — Dante Alighieri

Being by such a noble lover kissed,
This one, who ne'er from me shall be divided,
Kissed me upon the mouth all palpitating. — Dante Alighieri

The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and lead them to the state of blessedness. — Dante Alighieri

Che sanza speme vivemo in disio.
That without hope we live in desire. — Dante Alighieri

Sounds like you're overcompensating ... Besides, I didn't want you to get a creak in your neck from lookin' down at me. — Dante Alighieri

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen? — Dante Alighieri

It is his fate to enter every door. This has been willed where what is willed must be, and is not yours to question. Say no more. — Dante Alighieri

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

Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs. — Dante Alighieri

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

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

There is a gentle thought that often springs
to life in me, because it speaks of you. — Dante Alighieri

For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it. — Arthur Schopenhauer

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

The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain. — Dante Alighieri

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

But in the divine nature Persons three,
And in one person the divine and human. — Dante Alighieri

CANTO I IN the midway of this our mortal life, — Dante Alighieri

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 — Dante Alighieri

A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes. — Dante Alighieri

In the midway of this our mortal life,
I found me in a gloomy wood, astray,
Gone from the path direct. — Dante Alighieri

If your world isn't right, the cause is in you. — Dante Alighieri

The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact. — Dante Alighieri

Deed done is well begun. — Dante Alighieri

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

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain. — Dante Alighieri

Neither Creator nor creature ever,
Son, " he began, "was destitute of love
Natural or spiritual; and thou knowest it. — Dante Alighieri

Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing. — Dante Alighieri

When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon — Dante Alighieri

Its very memory gives a shape to fear. Death could scarce be more bitter than that place! — Dante Alighieri

We have no hope and yet we live in longing. — Dante Alighieri

Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. — Dante Alighieri

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

Beheld a power whose head was crowned with signs of victory. — Dante Alighieri

Rejoice, Florence, seeing you are so great that over sea and land you flap your wings, and your name is widely known in Hell! — Dante Alighieri

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life. — Dante Alighieri

Noble demands, by right, deserve the consequence of silent deeds. — Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri. The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. — Dan Brown

Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say — Dante Alighieri

No greater grief than to remember days
Of joy, when mis'ry is at hand. — Dante Alighieri

Christians, be steadier in what you do, not blown like feathers at the wind's discretion, nor think that every water cleanses you... — Dante Alighieri

Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together,
let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can. — Dante Alighieri

You can stay and die or you can walk your ugly ass back through that gate. It's your call, pal. — Dante Alighieri

Knowledge comes
Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else. — Dante Alighieri

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground. — Dante Alighieri

... I am left with less
than one drop of my blood that does not tremble.
I recognize the the signs of the old flame. — Dante Alighieri

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness. — Dante Alighieri

A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. — Dante Alighieri

At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe. — Dante Alighieri

I have set foot in that region of life where it is not possible to go with any more intention of returning — Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow
than thinking back upon a happy time
in misery
— Dante Alighieri

Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared? — Dante Alighieri

Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity. — Dante Alighieri

Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. — Dante Alighieri

The Infinite Goodness has such wide arms that it takes whatever turns to it. — Dante Alighieri