Dante Alighieri Quotes about Life

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In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Dante Alighieri

Life, Dark, Journey

Dante Alighieri (1961). “The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno”, p.23, Oxford University Press

The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.

Dante Alighieri

Life, Silence, Facts

Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1954). “The inferno”, Signet

This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

Dante Alighieri

Life, Soul, Sorrow

"Inferno", III. 3 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 440-455), 1922.

Love, who insists that love shall mutual be, Link'd me to him with charm strong as our fates; Even now it leaves me not, as thou dost see.

Dante Alighieri

Life, Mutual

"The Trilogy: Or Dante's Three Visions".

The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.

Dante Alighieri

Life, Work, Purpose

"The Divine Comedy".