Inferno is the first part of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, a 14th-century epic poem.
It tells the story of Dante’s trip through Hell’s nine circles, as directed by the ancient Roman poet Virgil.
The poem is largely considered as a Western literary masterpiece.
Here are some powerful quotes from The Inferno book for you.
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Inferno Quotes by Dante Alighieri
“The poets leave hell and again behold the stars.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“My thoughts were full of other things When I wandered off the path.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“And so we made our way across that heap of stones, which often moved beneath my feet because my weight was somewhat strange for them.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“But the stars that marked our starting fall away.
We must go deeper into greater pain,
for it is not permitted that we stay.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“I made my own house be my gallows.” ~ Dante Alighieri, Dante’s Inferno.
“For pride and avarice and envy are the three fierce sparks that set all hearts ablaze.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
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Best Inferno Quotes by Dante Alighieri
“Wisdom is earned, not given.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“Only as a man surrenders himself to Devine Love may he hope for salvation, and salvation is open to all who surrender themselves.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“Soon you will be where your own eyes will see the source and cause and give you their own answer to the mystery.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“It was the hour of morning,
when the sun mounts with those stars
that shone with it when God’s own love
first set in motion those fair things.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“Noble demands, by right, deserve the consequence of silent deeds.” ― Dante Alighieri, Dante’s Inferno
“At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people.” ― Dante Alighieri, The Inferno
“Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“Through me, the way is to the suffering city; Through me, the way is to eternal pain; Through me, the way among the people lost.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“Through the waters spilled by the spring, I was remade. Forth I fared, a new plant with new leaves in a new time. The stars were there, and I was set to climb.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
Quotes from Inferno by Dante Alighieri
“That your art, as best it can, also follows Divine Intellect, as the disciple follows the master; So in reality, your art is, as it were, God’s grandchild.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“You were not made to live like brute beasts,
but to pursue virtue and knowledge.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“From there we came outside and saw the stars.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“Even as he who glories while he gains will, when the time has come to tally loss, lament with every thought and turn despondent” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“And now, I pray you, tell me who you are: do not be harder than I’ve been with you that in the world your name may still endure.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“Our powers, whether of mind or tongue, cannot embrace that measure of understanding.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“We were men once, though we’ve become trees.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“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.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
Famous Inferno Quotes by Dante Alighieri
“Turn back and seek the safety of the shore; tempt not the deep, lest, losing unawares me and yourselves, you come to port no more.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“Before me there were no created things, Only eternity, and I too, last eternal. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“It is his fate to enter every door. This has been willed where what is willed must be, and is not yours to question. Say no more.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“They yearn for what they fear for.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“One should only be afraid of those things Which have the power of doing others harm; For the rest, fear not; because they are not fearful.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“He is, most of all, l’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
Powerful Inferno Quotes
“There is no greater sorrow
than thinking back upon a happy time
in misery–” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“So many times a man’s thoughts will waver, That it turns him back from honored paths, As false sight turns a beast, when he is afraid.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“You’ve built yourselves a god from silver and gold.
How does that differ from idol worship, except
Those people worship one god and you a hundred?” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“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.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“There is no greater sorrow Than to remember a happy time when you are In misery, and that, your Teacher knows.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“Here all suspicion must be abandoned, All cowardice must be extinct.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“Like the pages of a book soaked shut by time.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“These dwell among the blackest souls, loaded down deep by sins of differing types. If you sink far enough, you’ll see them all.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the
other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“He did what any hero must: set sail. But you, you turn back. Tell me why.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“I might then squeeze the juices of my thought more fully out of me.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
“The more perfect a thing the more it feels good and evil.” ~ Dante Alighieri (quote from Inferno).
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