Dante Alighieri, born in Florence, Italy, in 1265, was an illustrious Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher and political thinker.
Dante grew up in a family of modest means, lost his mother at a young age and was betrothed at twelve to Gemma di Manetto Donati.
Despite his marriage, Dante was enamored with Beatrice Portinari, a girl he loved passionately and continued to write about throughout his life.
As a young man, he studied various subjects, including poetry, painting and music, drawing influences from both Occitan and Latin poetry.
Dante is renowned for his monumental epic poem “The Divine Comedy,” a profound Christian vision of humanity’s temporal and eternal destiny.
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The poem, divided into “Inferno,” “Purgatorio,” and “Paradiso,” is considered a masterpiece of world literature.
Dante’s political activism in Florence led to his exile and he spent his later years in various cities, dying in Ravenna in 1321.
Here is a great collection of Dante Alighieri quotes.
Best Dante Alighieri Quotes
1. “Nature is the art of God.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
2. “The path to paradise begins in hell.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
3. “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
4. “All hope abandon, ye who enter here!” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
5. “The secret of getting things done is to act!” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
6. “Follow your own star!” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
7. “From a little spark may burst a flame.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
8. “Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
9. “Beauty awakens the soul to act.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
10. “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).
11. “The devil is not as black as he is painted.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
12. “Follow your path, and let the people talk.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
13. “Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
Top Dante Alighieri Quotes
14. “If your world isn’t right, the cause is in you.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
15. “Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
16. “The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
17. “If you give people light, they will find their own way.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
18. “Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
19. “Love insists the loved loves back.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
20. “Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
21. “Eternal love made me.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
22. “Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
Popular Dante Alighieri Quotes
23. “But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
24. “A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
25. “He is not always at ease who laughs.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
26. “My course is set for an uncharted sea.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
27. “Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can’t go on together, let’s retrace our steps as quickly as we can.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
28. “From there we came outside and saw the stars.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
29. “I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
30. “I love to doubt as well as know.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
Famous Dante Alighieri Quotes
31. “Consider that this day ne’er dawns again.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
32. “The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
33. “He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
34. “Everywhere is here and every when is now.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
35. “Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
36. “I wept not, so to stone within I grew.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
37. “If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
38. “He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
39. “Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
Short Dante Alighieri Quotes
40. “I made my own house be my gallows.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
41. “In His will, our peace.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
42. “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).
43. “A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
44. “Knowledge comes Of learning well retain’d, unfruitful else.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
45. “You sure know how to throw a party! No food, no drinks, and the only babe just left.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
46. “Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
47. “He listens well who takes notes.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
48. “They yearn for what they fear for.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
49. “Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.” ~ (Dante Alighieri).
