Dante Alighieri Quotes About Sorrow

Quotes about: Sorrow

• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing

• I am the way into the city of woe.
  I am the way to a forsaken people.
  I am the way into eternal sorrow.
  Sacred justice moved my architect.
  I was raised here by divine omnipotence,
  Primordial love and ultimate intellect.
  Only those elements time cannot wear
  Were made before me, and beyond time I stand.
  Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

  Dante Alighieri

  Omnipotence, Cities, Justice

  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.

• No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

  Dante Alighieri

  Remembrance, Suffering, Sorrow

• 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

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