Top 380 Dante Alighieri Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “Deed done is well begun.”

— Dante Alighieri

103. “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

104. “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”

— Dante Alighieri

105. “I’m beginning to think I’ve got rotten luck with women.”

— Dante Alighieri

106. “The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.”

— Dante Alighieri

107. “Fate’s arrow, when expected, travels slow.”

— Dante Alighieri

108. “Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde.”

— Dante Alighieri

109. “In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.”

— Dante Alighieri

110. “Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

112. “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

113. “Midway upon the journey of our life.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

115. “It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.”

— Dante Alighieri

116. “As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.”

— Dante Alighieri

117. “I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.”

— Dante Alighieri

118. “Behave like men, and not like witless sheep...”

— Dante Alighieri

119. “Through me is the way into the doleful city; through me the way into the eternal pain; through me the way among the people lost. Justice moved my High Maker; Divine Power made me, Wisdom Supreme, and Primal Love. Before me were no things created, but eternal; and eternal I endure: leave all hope, ye that enter.”

— Dante Alighieri

120. “He who shall never be divided from me kissed my mouth all trembling.”

— Dante Alighieri

121. “E chi avesse voluto conoscere Amore, fare lo potea mirando lo tremare de li occhi miei.”

— Dante Alighieri

122. “I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.”

— Dante Alighieri

123. “Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God’s grandchild.”

— Dante Alighieri

124. “Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.”

— Dante Alighieri

125. “And to a place I come where nothing shines.”

— Dante Alighieri

126. “Will cannot be quenched against its will.”

— Dante Alighieri

127. “Soon you will be where your own eyes will see the source and cause and give you their own answer to the mystery.”

— Dante Alighieri

128. “My mother used to always tell me that my father was a man who fought for the weak. He had courage and righteous heart. In the name of my father, I will kill Mundus!”

— Dante Alighieri

129. “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

130. “To course across more kindly waters now my talent’s little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.”

— Dante Alighieri

131. “A rapid bolt will rend the clouds apart, and every single White be seared by wounds. I tell you this. I want it all to hurt.”

— Dante Alighieri

132. “Wisdom is earned, not given.”

— Dante Alighieri

133. “Infinite goodness has such wide arms.”

— Dante Alighieri

134. “Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.”

— Dante Alighieri

135. “Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle.”

— Dante Alighieri

136. “How come I never meet any nice girls?”

— Dante Alighieri

137. “As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind – Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.”

— Dante Alighieri

138. “Without hope we live in desire.”

— Dante Alighieri

139. “I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.”

— Dante Alighieri

140. “I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.”

— Dante Alighieri

141. “All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.”

— Dante Alighieri

142. “The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.”

— Dante Alighieri

143. “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

144. “Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.”

— Dante Alighieri

145. “What is a smile but the coruscation of the joy of the soul, like the outward shining of an inward light.”

— Dante Alighieri

146. “It bugs the crap out of me when somebody talks more than I do.”

— Dante Alighieri

147. “A man’s renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.”

— Dante Alighieri

148. “You learn by trying, making mistakes, correcting and trying again and again until your reach the desired goal, which is rarely without effort, but is rather a reward for hard work.”

— Dante Alighieri

149. “Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.”

— Dante Alighieri

150. “The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.”

— Dante Alighieri