Top 380 Dante Alighieri Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

103. “Astrology, the noblest of sciences.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

105. “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

106. “Deed done is well begun.”

— Dante Alighieri

107. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

113. “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

114. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

116. “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

117. “Wisdom is earned, not given.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

121. “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

122. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

124. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

128. “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

129. “There is a place in Hell called the Malebolge...”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

131. “I know this is a major cultural artifact but it’s bad for the community.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

133. “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

134. “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

135. “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

136. “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

137. “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

138. “Turn around, and keep your eyes closed shut, For if the Gorgon, Medusa, does appear, and you see her, You would never be able to return upward.”

— Dante Alighieri

139. “Infinite goodness has such wide arms.”

— Dante Alighieri

140. “Come on, shake off the covers of this sloth, for sitting softly cushioned, or tucked in bed, is no way to win fame.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

142. “Salvation must grow out of understanding, total understanding can follow only from total experience, and experience must be won by the laborious discipline of shaping one’s absolute attention.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

144. “God is the love that moves the sun and stars.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

146. “Without hope we live in desire.”

— Dante Alighieri

147. “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

148. “As once I loved you in my mortal flesh, without it now I love you still.”

— Dante Alighieri

149. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri