Dante Alighieri Quotes
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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.
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The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.
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Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words.
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Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
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Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.
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Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here.
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He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
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Vedi l'erbette, i fiori e li arbuscelliche qui la terra sol da sé produce.
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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.
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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
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Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. How hard it is to tell what it was like, this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn (the thought of it brings back all my old fears), a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer. But if I would show the good that came of it I must talk about things other than the good.
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He who know most grieves most for wasted time.
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The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
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Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.
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My course is set for an uncharted sea.
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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
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Astrology, the noblest of sciences.
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There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;in the glory of his shining our hearts poureda bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'This litany they gargle in their throatsas if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch.
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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
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I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.
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The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.
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Eternal love made me.
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If you're asking for a date, forget it. 'Cause I make it a point not to go out with women who shoot me in the head!
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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes