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Dante Alighieri Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath.”
— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy(The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)
Tagged: Sadness, Death, Sad, Losing The Will To Live
“The devil is not as black as he is painted.”
— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy(The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)
Tagged: Philosophy
“Already desiring to explore inside and out 
the divine forest, so dense and alive, 
which tempered the new day before my eyes, 
without delay I left the bank, proceeding slowly through the country 
whose ground exuded fragrance everywhere.”
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio
Tagged: Forests, Nature
“In her salutation dwelt my bliss, a bliss which often exceeded my capacity to contain it.”
— Dante Alighieri, Dante’s Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Tagged: Love, Feelings of Love, Overwhelming Joy, Sexual/Love Transcendence
“I see your eyes, I see how they have wept, and how you come retreating all undone; my heart is touched and shaken at the sight.”
— Dante Alighieri, Dante’s Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Tagged: Tears, Crying
“While my imagination was wandering like this, I came to the point that I no longer knew where I was.”
— Dante Alighieri, Dante’s Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Tagged: I No Longer Knew Where I Was, Imagination, Location Distortion, Lost In Your Mind
“Upon seeing her, it was like I was hit by a heavy object and I trembled violently.”
— Dante Alighieri, La Vita Nuova: The New Life
Tagged: Femme Fatale
“We were received into the elements of the eternal pearl as water takes light to itself, with no change in its substance.”
— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Vol. II: Purgatory
Tagged: Dissolve, Absorb, Transubstantiation, Metaphors, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.”
— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library)
Tagged: first lines of books
“How can a mortal body achieve such beauty and such purity?”
— Dante Alighieri, Dante’s Vita Nuova, New Edition: A Translation and an Essay
Tagged: Purity, God & Man, Otherworldly Grains
“To me, the whole world is a homeland, like the sea to fish.”
— Dante Alighieri, De Vulgari Eloquentia
Tagged: Home, World, Similes
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