More Quotes by Dante Alighieri
When I had journeyed half of our life’s way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.
For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.
Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.
Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people.
I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.
At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.
Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.
Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more.
