Top 100 Quotes About Dante
#1. 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
#2. The chief imagination of Christendom,
Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself
That he has made that hollow face of his
More plain to the mind's eye than any face
But that of Christ.
William Butler Yeats
#3. The truth is, Ari, I miss El Paso. When we first moved there, I hated it. But now I think about El Paso all the time. And I think of you. Always, Dante P.S.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#4. I was harder than Dante. I think I'd tried to hide that hardness from him because I'd wanted him to like me. But now he knew. That I was hard. And maybe that was okay. Maybe he could like the fact that I was hard just as I liked the fact that he wasn't hard.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#5. Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Dante Alighieri
#6. We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. He tells his reader that writings should be expounded in four senses. The first
Dante Alighieri
#8. I wished it was raining," he said.
"I don't need the rain," I said. "I need you.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#9. I know there's a word called "miracle". But I don't know if there's a meaning inside the word, "miracle
Dante Soo
#10. Just then Dante leaned against him, brow between his shoulder blades for a moment, so tentatively Griff held his breath. His voice was almost sheepish. Nah. Everyone knows I was born defective. They didn't instal you until later.
Damon Suede
#11. Griff held his breath, waiting for it, knowing the axe would fall and he'd start dying as soon as he walked out the fucking door, and Dante would just grin and joke and try to forget what they had done together in this room.
Damon Suede
#12. Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage. Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.
Emma Goldman
#16. Everyone looks like they've just stepped out of a Dante Gabriel Rossetti painting that he never got around to finishing because even he knew it was too over the top. It
Joe Queenan
#17. The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.
William Strunk Jr.
#18. She wanted to be someone's muse - to be worshipped and adored, body and soul. She wanted to play Beatrice to a dashing and noble Dante and to inhabit Paradise with him forever. And to live a life that would rival the beauty of Botticelli's illustrations.
Sylvain Reynard
#20. Soon you will be where your own eyes will see the source and cause and give you their own answer to the mystery.
Dante Alighieri
#21. Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.
Dante Alighieri
#24. One summer night I fell asleep hoping the world would be different when I woke. In the morning, when I opened my eyes, the world was the same.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#25. Che sanza speme vivemo in disio.
That without hope we live in desire.
Dante Alighieri
#26. Now you know how much my love for you
burns deep in me
when I forget about our emptiness,
and deal with shadows as with solid things.
Dante Alighieri
#27. A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw them originally on TV and on HBO and certainly on home video.
Joe Dante
#29. Dante 19 had it wrong. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here leads to awakening, not to the realms of hell.
Ken McLeod
#30. Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.
T. S. Eliot
#31. I pictured Dante kissing her, telling her everything was all right. Dante who loved kissing dogs, who loved kissing his parents, who loved kissing boys, who even loved kissing girls.
Anonymous
#32. Even when I feared and detested Christianity, I was struck by its essential unity, which, in spite of its divisions, it has never lost. I trembled on recognizing the same unmistakable aroma coming from the writings of Dante and Bunyan, Thomas Aquinas and William Law.
C.S. Lewis
#33. Rejoice, Florence, seeing you are so great that over sea and land you flap your wings, and your name is widely known in Hell!
Dante Alighieri
#35. It may be that what we call modern is nothing, but what is not worthy of remaining to become old.
Dante Alighieri
#36. The ecclesiastical description of Hell is that of a horrible place of fire and torment; in Dante's Inferno, and in northern climes, it was thought to be an icy cold region, a giant refrigerator.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#38. We climbed, he first and I behind, until though a small round opening ahead of us, I saw the lovely things the heavens hold, and we came out to see once more the stars.
Dante Alighieri
#39. Thirteen," Dante murmured and I closed my eyes because I knew what was coming next. "I
Sloane Kennedy
#40. He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.
Dante Alighieri
#41. It is his fate to enter every door. This has been willed where what is willed must be, and is not yours to question. Say no more.
Dante Alighieri
#42. Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.
Dante Alighieri
#43. I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life.
Dante Ferretti
#44. When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.
Francesca Lo Schiavo
#45. As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.
Dante Alighieri
#46. It bugs the crap out of me when somebody talks more than I do.
Dante Alighieri
#47. I love my relationship with Coach Vermeil because it is one of the few genuine relationships that I have.
Dante Hall
#48. The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.
Ben Nicholson
#51. The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
Madeleine Stowe
#52. Why do we allow people to abuse their children? Why don't we defend the sick and the weak? Why do we let soldiers round up our neighbors and make them wear a star on their clothing and cram them into boxcars? It isn't God who's evil-it's us.
Sylvain Reynard
#53. At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.
Dante Alighieri
#54. There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.
Dante Alighieri
#55. your soul is sunken in that cowardice that bears down many men, turning their course and resolution by imagined perils, as his own shadow turns the frightened horse.
Dante Alighieri
#56. Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.
Dante Alighieri
#57. At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.
Dante Alighieri
#58. This is Nimrod, because of whose vile plan the world no longer speaks a single tongue.
Dante Alighieri
#59. One should only be afraid of those things Which have the power of doing others harm; For the rest, fear not; because they are not fearful.
Dante Alighieri
#60. He smiled the most wicked smile she'd ever seen himi unleash.
"No. Just keep your eyes open. I want you to see who you're making love to."
~Dante
Tina Folsom
#63. And of that second kingdom will I sing Wherein the human spirit doth purge itself, And to ascend to heaven becometh worthy. -Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto I.004-006.
Sylvain Reynard
#65. Tis Dante I prefer. In his Inferno he suggests the one true path from Hell lies at its very heart ...
... and that in order to escape, we must instead go further IN.
Alan Moore
#66. The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
Dante Alighieri
#67. Milton was the gold standard of religious poets for English and American scholars. But Milton wrote of Hell and Heaven from above and below, respectively, not from the inside: safer advantages.
Matthew Pearl
#68. Ready or not! Before I can stop him, Max races toward the bed and dives on top of us. Oh! Oh it feels even better than I imagined. He rolls back and forth across us as Charlie laughs and I wonder why I am friends with such a raging idiot.
Victoria Scott
#70. Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back.
Joe Dante
#72. Ah, that's your problem," Riley said, relieved to be on familiar ground. "You've got a copy of Paradise Lost
in your house. Biblios hate Milton. Same with Dante, C.S. Lewis and most holy books. They'll go after those every time.
Jana Oliver
#74. Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.
Goldwin Smith
#75. High justice would in no way be debased
if ardent love should cancel instantly
the debts these penitents must satisfy.
Dante Alighieri
#79. My will and my desire were both revolved, as is a wheel in even motion driven, by Love, which moves the sun and other stars.
Dante Alighieri
#80. You found me in my lonely labyrinth and like Beatrice, led me out of my own hell ...
John Geddes
#82. With Dante gone, time seemed to stand still around me; the mornings just as cloudy and dark as the evenings, as if the sun had never decided to rise. There was no wind, like the world was holding its breath along with me, waiting for him to return.
Yvonne Woon
#83. Bourbon, Kentucky bourbon especially, is like Dante's Inferno in a glass, fire walks down your throat, lungs, and heart and everything in between with an unpleasant after-taste. We got along just fine.
Bruce Crown
#84. Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing.
Dante Alighieri
#86. What do you love, Ari? What do you really love?"
"I love the desert. God, I love the desert."
"It's so lonely."
"Is it?"
Dante didn't understand. I was unknowable.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#87. Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
Dante Alighieri
#88. I don't believe that you can judge the worth of a movie in the atmosphere in which it comes out the first time. There's just so many reasons why some pictures don't catch on.
Joe Dante
#89. Three dispositions adverse to Heaven's still, - Incontinence, malice, and mad brutishness.
Dante Alighieri
#90. Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.
Gustav Stresemann
#91. As the geometer intently seeks
to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.
Dante Alighieri
#93. Movies get found in the editing room. The movie that you make is not always necessarily the movie that comes out of the editing room. The trick is to perfect the movie that you have and make it the best version of what you've shot, regardless of what the intent may have been.
Joe Dante
#94. It wasn't the tequila and oxy. You really are that fucking gorgeous.
Adrian Phoenix
#95. There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.
Dante Alighieri
#96. Dante: Evergreens aren't supposed to die
Renee: Everything Dies ..
Yvonne Wood
#98. Noble demands, by right, deserve the consequence of silent deeds.
Dante Alighieri
#99. Beheld a power whose head was crowned with signs of victory.
Dante Alighieri
#100. Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
Eugenio Montale
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