Top 380 Dante Alighieri Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Astrology, the noblest of sciences.”

— Dante Alighieri

102. “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

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. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

107. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

109. “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

110. “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

111. “Wisdom is earned, not given.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

113. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

117. “Deed done is well begun.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

119. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

125. “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

126. “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

127. “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

128. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

130. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

132. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

135. “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

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

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

— Dante Alighieri

139. “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

140. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

142. “Love rules me. It determines what I ask.”

— Dante Alighieri

143. “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

144. “Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.”

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

— Dante Alighieri

147. “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

148. “I come from a place, I long to return to:.”

— Dante Alighieri

149. “When he saw me weeping, he answered: ‘You must go another road, if you wish to escape this savage place. This creature, that distresses you, allows no man to cross her path, but obstructs him, to destroy him, and she has so vicious and perverse a nature, that she never sates her greedy appetite, and after food is hungrier than before.”

— Dante Alighieri

150. “Three dispositions adverse to Heaven’s still, – Incontinence, malice, and mad brutishness.”

— Dante Alighieri