Divine Comedy Quotes

“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; Love has conducted us unto one death; Caina waiteth him who quenched our life!”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

topic:love life death

“And all the while one spirit uttered this, The other one did weep so, that, for pity, I swooned away as if I had been dying, And fell, even as a dead body falls.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

topic:death body spirit

“There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery, and that thy Teacher knows.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

topic:happiness sorrow misery

“I cannot well repeat how there I entered, So full was I of slumber at the moment In which I had abandoned the true way.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

topic:truth way

“Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang; Ye were not made to live like unto brutes, But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

topic:knowledge virtue

“Be as a tower, that, firmly set, Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

“The heavens are calling you, and wheel around you, Displaying to you their eternal beauties, And still your eye is looking on the ground; Whence He, who all discerns, chastises you.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

topic:beauty eyes heaven

“Behold the beast, for which I have turned back; Do thou protect me from her, famous Sage, For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

topic:wisdom

“For such defects, and not for other guilt, Lost are we and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

topic:hope desire

“Before me there were no created things, Only eterne, and I eternal last. All hope abandon, ye who enter in!”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

topic:hope hell eternity

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