Dante Alighieri Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• ... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Happy Times, Misery

• Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Cities, People

  Dante Alighieri (1846). “The vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, tr. by H.F. Cary. With notes”, p.18

• There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Dark, Language Words

• Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here.

  Dante Alighieri

  Running, Religious, Pain

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: a verse translation”

• 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

  Pain, Cities, People

• 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

  Stars, Pain, Fall

  Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Inferno”, p.75, Penguin

• 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

  Pain, Memories, Grief

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “The Inferno: A Verse Rendering for the Modern Reader by John Ciardi”, Signet

• There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Grief, Past

  Dante Alighieri, Mark Musa (1995). “Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition”, p.311, Indiana University Press

• Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow
  Such travails new and pains as met my glance!

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Justice, Mets

• The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Perfect, Pleasure

  Dante Alighieri (1851). “Divine Comedy. The Inferno”, p.73

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