Top 380 Dante Alighieri Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Blessed are the peacemakers, For they have freed themselves from sinful wrath.”

— Dante Alighieri

52. “Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.”

— Dante Alighieri

53. “Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people.”

— Dante Alighieri

54. “We have no hope and yet we live in longing.”

— Dante Alighieri

55. “I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.”

— Dante Alighieri

56. “A fight every now and again does make life more interesting. Don’t ya think?”

— Dante Alighieri

57. “And we came forth to contemplate the stars.”

— Dante Alighieri

58. “Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.”

— Dante Alighieri

59. “Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.”

— Dante Alighieri

60. “Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.”

— Dante Alighieri

61. “Amor, ch’a nullo amato amar perdona.”

— Dante Alighieri

62. “But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.”

— Dante Alighieri

63. “When I had journeyed half of our life’s way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.”

— Dante Alighieri

64. “The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.”

— Dante Alighieri

65. “Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

67. “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

68. “Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.”

— Dante Alighieri

69. “O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?”

— Dante Alighieri

70. “Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.”

— Dante Alighieri

71. “He is, most of all, l’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.”

— Dante Alighieri

72. “No one thinks of how much blood it costs.”

— Dante Alighieri

73. “For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.”

— Dante Alighieri

74. “It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God’s own love first set in motion those fair things.”

— Dante Alighieri

75. “I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more...”

— Dante Alighieri

76. “Abandon every hope, you who enter.”

— Dante Alighieri

77. “The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

79. “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

80. “Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.”

— Dante Alighieri

81. “Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

83. “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

84. “The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.”

— Dante Alighieri

85. “The well heeded well heard.”

— Dante Alighieri

86. “Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate’.”

— Dante Alighieri

87. “Love can move the Sun and the stars.”

— Dante Alighieri

88. “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. Beatrice – Canto V 40-42.”

— Dante Alighieri

89. “The love that moves the sun and the other stars.”

— Dante Alighieri

90. “He who know most grieves most for wasted time.”

— Dante Alighieri

91. “You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man’s bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man’s stairs.”

— Dante Alighieri

92. “A backward glance can often lift the heart.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

94. “As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.”

— Dante Alighieri

95. “The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.”

— Dante Alighieri

96. “If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

98. “Astrology, the noblest of sciences.”

— Dante Alighieri

99. “Consider the sea’s listless chime: Time’s self it is, made audible.”

— Dante Alighieri

100. “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