Top 380 Dante Alighieri Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.”

— Dante Alighieri

152. “Open thy mind; take in what I explain and keep it there; because to understand is not to know, if thou dost not retain...”

— Dante Alighieri

153. “Often a retrospect delights the mind.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

155. “Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

157. “No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

159. “This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.”

— Dante Alighieri

160. “That with him were, what time the Love Divine.”

— Dante Alighieri

161. “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

162. “There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

169. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

175. “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

176. “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

177. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

179. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

181. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

184. “The experience of this sweet life.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

186. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

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

— Dante Alighieri

191. “Love, that allows no loved one to be excused from loving, seized me so fiercely with desire for him, it still will not leave me, as you can see. Love led us to one death.”

— Dante Alighieri

192. “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

193. “I have set foot in that region of life where it is not possible to go with any more intention of returning.”

— Dante Alighieri

194. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

196. “The poets leave hell and again behold the stars.”

— Dante Alighieri

197. “You shall leave everything you love.”

— Dante Alighieri

198. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri