547 Quotes by Dante Alighieri

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

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.

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

Turn around, and keep your eyes closed shut, For if the Gorgon, Medusa, does appear, and you see her, You would never be able to return upward.

I say that when she appeared, in whatever place, by the hope embodied in that marvelous greeting, for me no enemy remained, in fact I shone with a flame of charity that made me grant pardon to whoever had offended me: and if anyone had then asked me anything my reply would only have been: ‘Love’, with an aspect full of humility.

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.

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.

There’s not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.

Those things that have the power to hurt are to be feared: not those other things that are not fearful. I am made such, by God’s grace, that your suffering does not touch me, nor does the fire of this burning scorch me.