547 Quotes by Dante Alighieri

A rapid bolt will rend the clouds apart, and every single White be seared by wounds. I tell you this. I want it all to hurt.

... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)

Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42

Often a retrospect delights the mind.

The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.

Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.

The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride. [It., Lo tuo ver dir m'incuora Buona umilta e gran tumor m'appiani.]

How come I never meet any nice girls?

Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.