547 Quotes by Dante Alighieri

What is it then? Why do you hesitate?Why do you relish living like a coward?Why cannot you be bold and keen to start?

The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.

Oh how time hangs and drags till our aid comes!

The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.

All those who perish in the wrath of God  Here meet together out of every land;And ready are they to pass o'er the river,  Because celestial Justice spurs them on,  So that their fear is turned into desire.This way there never passes a good soul;  And hence if Charon doth complain of thee,  Well mayst thou know now what his speech imports.

High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents must satisfy.

Thus into the sempiternal justice the sight conferred in your world penetrates only as far as the eye does into the sea, for though close to shore you may see the bottom, on the open sea you cannot, and nonetheless it is there, but hidden by being deep.

There is no greater sorrowThan to recall a happy timeWhen miserable.

As once I loved you in my mortal flesh, without it now I love you still.