Quotes from Dante Alighieri

Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

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

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

Honor is the greatest poet.

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

Without hope we live in desire.

Still desiring, we live without hope.

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

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

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

Abandon every hope, you who enter.

These have not the hope to die.

Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!

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

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

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

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

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

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.

It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.

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

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.