111 Quotes About Dante

How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is upon them, can lose completely their sense of balance and proportion and spend years dealing with this madness.

I wished it was raining," he said."I don't need the rain," I said. "I need you.

I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we're thinking about things that we don't know we're thinking about-and those things, well, they sneak out of us in our dreams. Maybe we're like tires with too much air in them. The air has to leak out. That's what dreams are.

I guess I did miss Dante-even though I tried hard to not think about him. The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.

I wonder if he’d been as beautiful as Dante. And I wondered why I thought that.

I guess I didn't have it so bad.Maybe everybody didn't love me,but i wasn't one of those kids that everyone hated,either.I was good in a fight.So people left me alone.i was almost invisible.i think i liked it that way.And then Dante came along.

​Per me si va ne la città dolente,Per me si va ne l'etterno dolore,Per me si va tra la perduta gente.Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore:Fecemi la divina potestateLa somma sapienza e'l primo amoreDinanzi a me non fuor cose create se non etterne, e io etterno duro.Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'intrate.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." It's a little bit on the nose, wouldn't you say, when they hang this big old sign above the entrance to Hell, the land of eternal damnation, telling you, "give up, it doesn't get better"? I'd imagine a human soul with an eternity of torture every moment of every day for the remainder of their existence would see this sign and think, "Yeah. No shit, Sherlock." Which means it's perfect.

Archie asked me if I knew Dante's definition of hell..."Proximity without intimacy," he said.