The Best Dantes Inferno quotes

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

And now, I pray you, tell me who you are: do not be harder than I’ve been with you that in the world your name may still endure. — Dante Alighieri

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

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

Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on. — Dante Alighieri

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. — Dante Alighieri

All of nature is God’s art. — Dante Alighieri

The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness. — Dante Alighieri

Mankind is at its best when it is most free. — Dante Alighieri

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

Beauty awakens the soul to act. — Dante Alighieri

I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey. — Dante Alighieri

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

The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love… and, mirror–like… each soul reflects the other. — Dante Alighieri

These dwell among the blackest souls, loaded down deep by sins of differing types. If you sink far enough, you’ll see them all. — Dante Alighieri

Your soul has been assailed by cowardice, which often weighs so heavily on a man––distracting him from honorable trials––as phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall. — Dante Alighieri

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. — Dante Alighieri

My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates. — Dante Alighieri

Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom. — Dante Alighieri

These have not the hope to die. — Dante Alighieri

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

Still desiring, we live without hope. — Dante Alighieri

Without hope we live in desire. — Dante Alighieri

Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire. — Dante Alighieri

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

The wish to hear such baseness is degrading. — Dante Alighieri

You shall leave everything you love. — Dante Alighieri

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

Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar. — 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

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

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

Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self–love deceive him. — Dante Alighieri

Love, who insists that love shall mutual be, Link’d me to him with charm strong as our fates; Even now it leaves me not, as thou dost see. — Dante Alighieri

He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves. — Dante Alighieri

Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly. — Dante Alighieri

The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true. — Dante Alighieri

Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady’s admirable gifts…Beyond the range of human intellect. — 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

Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone. — Dante Alighieri

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. — Dante Alighieri

Love can move the Sun and the stars. — Dante Alighieri

So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces. — Dante Alighieri

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

The experience of this sweet life. — Dante Alighieri

In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost. — Dante Alighieri

A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded. — Dante Alighieri

At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost. — Dante Alighieri

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

The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness. — Dante Alighieri

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream. — Dante Alighieri

Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self–seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity! — 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

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

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes] — 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

Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here. — Dante Alighieri

Before me there were no created things, Only eternity, and I too, last eternal. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here! — Dante Alighieri

Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri

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. — Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness. — Dante Alighieri

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

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

Less shame a greater fault would palliate. — Dante Alighieri

Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.) — Dante Alighieri

But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay. — Dante Alighieri

As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning. — Dante Alighieri

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

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

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

Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure. — Dante Alighieri

I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon. — Dante Alighieri

The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone. — Dante Alighieri