Top 380 Dante Alighieri Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.”

— Dante Alighieri

152. “Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.”

— Dante Alighieri

153. “I learnt that the carnal sinners are condemned to these torments, they who subject their reason to their lust.”

— Dante Alighieri

154. “Haste denies all acts their dignity.”

— Dante Alighieri

155. “Often a retrospect delights the mind.”

— Dante Alighieri

156. “Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?”

— Dante Alighieri

157. “Look hard, all you whose minds are sound and sane, and wonder at the meaning lying veiled beyond the curtain of this alien verse.”

— Dante Alighieri

158. “It follows, then, that the only way to get into Hell is to insist upon it. One must deliberately exclude himself from grace by hardening his heart against it. Hell is what the damned have actively and insistently wished for.”

— Dante Alighieri

159. “Hell exists from within.”

— Dante Alighieri

160. “Now you can plainly see how deeply hidden truth is from scrutinists who would insist that every love is, in itself, praiseworthy; and they are led to error by the matter of love, because it may seem-always-good; but not each seal is fine, although the wax is.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

166. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

170. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

174. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

179. “Infinite goodness has such wide arms.”

— Dante Alighieri

180. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

182. “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

183. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

185. “The experience of this sweet life.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

188. “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

189. “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

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. “Without hope we live in desire.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

194. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

196. “You shall leave everything you love.”

— Dante Alighieri

197. “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

198. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri