Dante's Inferno Canto Quotes

#1. I love to doubt as well as know."
~ Dante's Inferno, Canto XI, 93: "non men che saver, dubbiar m'aggrata.

Dante Alighieri

#2. Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.

Dante Alighieri

#3. There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

Dante Alighieri

#4. They yearn for what they fear for.

Dante Alighieri

#5. Everyone worries, everyone feels at least a little bit doomed basically all the time, even the richest, most successful, most secure among us live in perpetually anxious states of barely hanging on

Ben Fountain

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

Dante Alighieri

#7. When I was about twenty-five years of age, Professor Sims informed me that I could sing, but added, 'I would like to be at least forty miles away while you are doing it.'

Heber J. Grant

#8. The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

Dante Alighieri

#9. "And when you go back to your room tonight, I'll know I'm closer to you than I was yesterday, and my bed will have your smell all over it".

Mia Sheridan

#10. I am living. I remember you.

Marie Howe

#11. Every song
is the remains
of love.

Every light
the remains
of time.
A knot
of time.

And every sigh
the remains
of a cry.

- Every Song

Federico Garcia Lorca

#12. Mascara is my daily essential. I pile it on top and bottom lashes during the day. If I'm going out, I'll add the individual Eylure lashes at the outer corners for more drama.

Ashley Madekwe