Divine Comedy Quotes

• Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

  Eugenio Montale

  Creative, Height, Comedy

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• O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

  Dante Alighieri

  Fall, Race, Wind

  Dante Alighieri (1919). “The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri”

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  Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

  Dante Alighieri

  Knowledge, Men, Virtue

  'Divina Commedia' 'Inferno' canto 26, l. 118

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• Beauty awakens the soul to act.

  Dante Alighieri

  Beauty, Spiritual, Soul

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• We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

  Max Hastings

  Play, Ridiculous, Comedy

  "The view from Hastings" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

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• If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

  Dante Alighieri

  World, Causes, Ifs

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• I saw within Its depth how It conceives
  All things in a single volume bound by Love
  of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

  Dante Alighieri

  Depth, Literature, Saws

  Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Paradiso”, p.12, Penguin

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• The secret of getting things done is to act!

  Dante Alighieri

  Secret Love, Done, Getting High

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• Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Pride, Men

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• From a little spark may burst a flame.

  Dante Alighieri

  Flames, May, Littles

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• 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

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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.

  Dante Alighieri

  Life, Dark, Journey

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

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• For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.

  Dante Alighieri

  Pulse, Veins

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.”, p.10, Dante Alighieri

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• Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.

  Dante Alighieri

  Love, Romantic, Clock Is Ticking

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• Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

  Dante Alighieri

  Inferno, Gates Of Hell, Abandon

  Dante Alighieri (2014). “Dante's Inferno [translated]: Modern English Translation”, p.21, BookBaby

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• 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”

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• Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

  Dante Alighieri

  Fire, Ice, Darkness

  Dante Alighieri (2013). “The Divine Comedy: The Unabridged Classic”, p.24, Vintage

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• The devil is not as black as he is painted.

  Dante Alighieri

  Black, Devil

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• [Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms...

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Men, Joy

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 2), 1949.

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• The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as explained, loses the tree and water of life at the beginning of Genesis and gets them back at the end of Revelation.

  Northrop Frye

  Men, Water Of Life, Tree

  "The Great Code: The Bible and Literature". Book by Northrop Frye, 1981.

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• The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. The objective world remains what it was, but, because of a shift of emphasis within the subject, is beheld as though transformed. Where formerly life and death contended, now enduring being is made manifest-as indifferent to the accidents of time as water boiling in a pot is to the destiny of a bubble, or as the cosmos to the appearance and disappearance of a galaxy of stars.

  Joseph Campbell

  Stars, Destiny, Men

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• 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

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• He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.

  Dante Alighieri

  Moving, Amor, Fallen Angels

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• Remember tonight...for it's the beginning of forever. - Dante Alighieri

  Dan Brown

  Clock Is Ticking, Forever, Tonight

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• The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Life, Stars

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing

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