Top 300 Dante Alighieri Quotes (2023 Update)
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151. “That with him were, what time the Love Divine.”

— Dante Alighieri

152. “Before me there were no created things, Only eternity, and I too, last eternal. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!”

— Dante Alighieri

153. “Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.”

— Dante Alighieri

154. “This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

156. “For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.”

— Dante Alighieri

157. “In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him.”

— Dante Alighieri

158. “You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you.”

— Dante Alighieri

159. “On march the banners of the King of Hell.”

— Dante Alighieri

160. “Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.”

— Dante Alighieri

161. “My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.”

— Dante Alighieri

162. “If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.”

— Dante Alighieri

163. “Here pity only lives when it is dead – Virgil.”

— Dante Alighieri

164. “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

165. “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

166. “The Infinite Goodness has such wide arms that it takes whatever turns to it.”

— Dante Alighieri

167. “There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair.”

— Dante Alighieri

168. “You can stay and die or you can walk your ugly ass back through that gate. It’s your call, pal.”

— Dante Alighieri

169. “So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.”

— Dante Alighieri

170. “They have no hope of death, and their darkened life is so mean that they are envious of every other fate. Earth allows no mention of them to exist: mercy and justice reject them: let us not talk of them, but look and pass.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

172. “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

173. “One should only be afraid of those things Which have the power of doing others harm; For the rest, fear not; because they are not fearful.”

— Dante Alighieri

174. “My thoughts were full of other things When I wandered off the path.”

— Dante Alighieri

175. “The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.”

— Dante Alighieri

176. “Rejoice, Florence, seeing you are so great that over sea and land you flap your wings, and your name is widely known in Hell!”

— Dante Alighieri

177. “Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?”

— Dante Alighieri

178. “Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur michi.”

— Dante Alighieri

179. “I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves.”

— Dante Alighieri

180. “Master,” I said, “when the great clarion fades into the voice of thundering Omniscience, what of these agonies? Will they be the same, or more, or less, after the final sentence?”

— Dante Alighieri

181. “If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it’s flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I’ve heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

183. “You shall leave everything you love.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

185. “No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

187. “To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.”

— Dante Alighieri

188. “As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

190. “Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.”

— Dante Alighieri

191. “The experience of this sweet life.”

— Dante Alighieri

192. “Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.”

— Dante Alighieri

193. “And my Guide to me: “He will not wake again until the angel trumpet sounds the day on which the host shall come to judge all men.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

195. “A heavy thunder shattered the deep sleep in my head, so that I came to myself, like someone woken by force, and standing up, I moved my eyes, now refreshed, and looked round, steadily, to find out what place I was in. I found myself, in truth, on the brink of the valley of the sad abyss that gathers the thunder of an infinite howling. It was so dark, and deep, and clouded, that I could see nothing by staring into its depths.”

— Dante Alighieri

196. “Less shame a greater fault would palliate.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

198. “At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.”

— Dante Alighieri

199. “A light there is in the beyond which makes the Creator visible to the creature, who only in beholding Him finds peace.”

— Dante Alighieri

200. “In this place piety lives where pity is dead.”

— Dante Alighieri