Inferno quotes

View Quote Day was departing, and the embrowned airReleased the animals that are on earthFrom their fatigues.

View Quote Do not rest in so profound a doubt except she tell it thee, who shall be a light between truth and intellect. I know not if thou understand: I speak of Beatrice.

View Quote Each one confusedly a good conceivesWherein the mind may rest, and longeth for it;Therefore to overtake it each one strives.

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View Quote Fixed in the mire they say, 'We sullen were⁠In the sweet air, which by the sun is gladdened,⁠Bearing within ourselves the sluggish reek;Now we are sullen in this sable mire.'⁠This hymn do they keep gurgling in their throats,⁠For with unbroken words they cannot say it.

View Quote For all the gold that is beneath the moon,Or ever has been, of these weary soulsCould never make a single one repose.

View Quote For always the man in whom thought springs up over thought sets his mark farther off, for the one thought saps the force of the other.

View Quote For to lose time irks him most who most knows.

View Quote For top of judgment doth not vail itself,Because the fire of love fulfils at onceWhat he must satisfy who here installs him.

View Quote From that pointDependent is the heaven and nature all.

View Quote Give us this day the daily manna, without which, in this rough desert, he backward goes, who toils most to go on.

View Quote God in his mercy such created me⁠That misery of yours attains me not,⁠Nor any flame assails me of this burning.

View Quote He goes seeking liberty, which is so dear, as he knows who gives his life for it.

View Quote Here sighs and lamentations and loud crieswere echoing across the starless air,so that, as soon as I set out, I wept.Strange utterances, horrible pronouncements,accents of anger, words of suffering,and voices shrill and faint, and beating hands—all went to make a tumult that will whirlforever through that turbid, timeless air,like sand that eddies when a whirlwind swirls.

View Quote Hope nevermore to look upon the heavens;I come to lead you to the other shore,To the eternal shades in heat and frost.