Pain Quotes by Dante Alighieri

11 Pain quotes by Dante Alighieri

Dante’s medieval lens turns suffering into a grand, allegorical trek. In these eleven concise passages you’ll glimpse how the poet maps pain onto a journey of redemption.

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

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At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such…

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

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“The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.”

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Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the…

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

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But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that…

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... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time…

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There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible…

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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…

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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…

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Love can move the Sun and the stars.

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

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“On march the banners of the King of Hell.”

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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

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All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

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We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

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Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.

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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

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