Danger Quote by Peter Weiss

“ 'Do not ask what brings Dante to man but what brings man to Dante-to personally enter his sphere, though it is forever severe…

— Matthew Pearl

Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocence…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Everyone goes through a period of Traviamento - when we take, say, a different turn in life, the other via . Dante himself did.…

— André Aciman

“A full and powerful soul not only copes with painful even terrible losses, deprivations, robberies, insults; it emerges from such hells with a greater…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I did not stop to question my motives for trying to protect the demon king. I could not return to my own realm. For…

— Nicola C. Matthews

Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and…

— Khalil Gibran

“The force of Dante's poetry resonated most in those who did not confess the Catholic faith, for believers would inevitably have quibbles with Dante's…

— Matthew Pearl

When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever,"…

— Emily Dickinson

It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.

— Owen Feltham

“Which circle did Dante himself go to after death...”

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

“Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above…

— Anonymous

“But as he stood at the brink of that decision, into the vacuum created by that shimmering lure of escape returned his primal conviction…

— Mark Frost