Quotes About The Divine Comedy

#1. And in the vine of the divine,
There is a fine line;
Between tragedy and comedy,
That a man cannot define.

Stephan Attia

#2. HELEN HAYES: "Which part of The Divine Comedy do you like the most, Tiziano?"
TIZIANO CONTI: "The fifth Canto."
HELEN HAYES: "The Hell, huh?"
TIZIANO CONTI: "L'inferno depicts the truth.

Merce Cardus

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

Eugenio Montale

#4. 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

#5. But which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of epic stomach can digest these epic tales.

Will Durant

#6. I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.

Ba Jin

#7. His (Islamic astronomer al-Farghani) legacy also endures through the Italian writer and poet Dante (1265-1321), who derived most of the astronomical knowledge he included in his DIVINE COMEDY from the writings of al-Farghani (whom he referred to by his Latin name, Alfraganus).

Jim Al-Khalili

#8. Come on, shake off the covers of this sloth, for sitting softly cushioned, or tucked in bed, is no way to win fame.

Dante Alighieri

#9. I know her by heart, and that doesn't make me love her any less. Like a Dante scholar who learns the entire Divine Comedy and then just appreciates the poem even more profoundly.

Fausto Brizzi

#10. Midway upon the journey of our life

Dante Alighieri

#11. perhaps the greatest poem ever written

Rod Dreher

#12. Insanity is when you keep doing something that does not work

Sunday Adelaja

#13. In his will is our peace.

Dante The Divine Comedy

#14. The Divine Comedy.

Dan Brown

#15. 'The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.

Roberto Benigni

#16. Lord, to whom should we go? Thy words are the words of eternal life.

Pope Paul VI

#17. Limbo. It's not Heaven, and it's not Hell. It's the in-between.' (Edward speaking about reading the Divine Comedy.
Luke: 'This was, I realised, my new address.

Jodi Picoult

#18. Aching, she gazed down at Kien, then blew him a kiss, love mingling with longing and regret. He answered, sending her a kiss in turn. And another smile, radiant with delight. How could one man be so captivating?

R.J. Larson

#19. We will not discuss the question as to when this shall be, lest we lose the comfort of the certainty that it shall be.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#20. It is pointless for a woodcutter to shed tears for the trees he'd chopped all his life. He can't bring them back but he can plant new ones and in doing so he would have compensated and redeemed himself of his wrongdoings.

Chirag Tulsiani

#21. 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

#22. Everyone loves a comedy, my dear. It is divine.

Rawi Hage

#23. Inferno is the underworld as described in Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy, which portrays hell as an elaborately structured realm populated by entities known as "shades" - bodiless souls trapped between life and death.

Dan Brown

#24. To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy, for to laugh is to pray.

Ilyas Kassam

#25. When the Dublin-born Beckett was asked by a Parisian journalist whether he was English, he replied, 'On the contrary.

Terry Eagleton

#26. Thy soul is by vile fear assailed

Dante Alighieri

#27. Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#28. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri

#29. A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of The Inferno, The Divine Comedy, to help guide him through the underworld.

Edward Hirsch

#30. If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.

Joshua Mohr

#31. Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#32. The Divine Comedy, and indeed our own spiritual life, is not about rejection, or suppression, it is about redemption.

Malcolm Guite

#33. What matters for the dialectician is having the wind of world history in his sails. Thinking for him means: to set the sails. It is the way they are set that matters. Words are his sails. The way they are set turns them into concepts.

Walter Benjamin