Top 380 Dante Alighieri Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

206. “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

207. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

213. “The experience of this sweet life.”

— Dante Alighieri

214. “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

215. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

219. “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

220. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

224. “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

225. “You shall leave everything you love.”

— Dante Alighieri

226. “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

227. “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

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

230. “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

231. “All of nature is God’s art.”

— Dante Alighieri

232. “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

233. “Our powers, whether of mind or tongue, cannot embrace that measure of understanding.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

235. “Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

237. “Only as a man surrenders himself to Devine Love may he hope for salvation, and salvation is open to all who surrender themselves.”

— Dante Alighieri

238. “The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.”

— Dante Alighieri

239. “Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

241. “Noble demands, by right, deserve the consequence of silent deeds.”

— Dante Alighieri

242. “Could I have everything for which I long, You would not still endure this banishment way from human nature,” I replied. “Your image – dear, fatherly, benevolent – Being fixed inside my memory, has imbued My heart: when in the fair world, hour by hour You taught me, patiently, it was you who showed The way man makes himself eternal; therefore, The gratitude I feel toward you makes fit That while I live, I should declare it here. And what you tell me of my future, I write.”

— Dante Alighieri

243. “That your art, as best it can, also follows Divine Intellect, as the disciple follows the master; So in reality, your art is, as it were, God’s grandchild.”

— Dante Alighieri

244. “O mortal men, be wary of how ye judge.”

— Dante Alighieri

245. “That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.”

— Dante Alighieri

246. “And just as he who unwills what he wills and shifts what he intends to seek new ends so that he’s drawn from what he had begun, so was I in the midst of that dark land, because, with all my thinking, I annulled the task I had so quickly undertaken.”

— Dante Alighieri

247. “Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.”

— Dante Alighieri

248. “Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.”

— Dante Alighieri

249. “Here all suspicion must be abandoned, All cowardice must be extinct.”

— Dante Alighieri

250. “Well, if the kid screws up, then I’ll just have to kick his ass.”

— Dante Alighieri