Dante Alighieri Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Without hope we live in desire.

  Dante Alighieri

  Desire, Without Hope

  Dante Alighieri (2005). “The Divine Comedy: Inferno”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

• ...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

  Dante Alighieri

  Stars, Moving, Desire

  Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 33, l. 145 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

• 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

  Dream, Memories, Lying

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

• ...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.

  Dante Alighieri

  Light, Desire, Delight

• Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

  Dante Alighieri

  Desire, Lost, Without Hope

  Dante Alighieri (2015). “The Inferno”, p.34, Race Point Pub

• I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?

  Dante Alighieri

  Fate, Sorrow, Desire

• 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

  Stars, Moving, Desire

  Dante Alighieri, Charles Hubert Sisson (1980). “The divine comedy”

• Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

  Dante Alighieri

  Desire, Flight, Reason

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