Inferno quotes

View Quote A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

View Quote A thing done has an end!

View Quote Against a better will the will fights ill, ...

View Quote And after it there came so long a train⁠Of people, that I ne'er would have believed⁠That ever Death so many had undone.

View Quote And as he is, who unwills what he willed,⁠And by new thoughts doth his intention change,⁠So that from his design he quite withdraws,Such I became, upon that dark hillside,⁠Because, in thinking, I consumed the emprise,⁠Which was so very prompt in the beginning.

View Quote And has a nature so malign and ruthless,⁠That never doth she glut her greedy will,⁠And after food is hungrier than before.(tr. Longfellow)

View Quote And just as he who, with exhausted breath,having escaped from the sea to shore,turns to the perilous waters and gazes.(tr. Mandelbaum).

View Quote And one his limb transpierced, and one lopped off,⁠Should show, it would be nothing to compare⁠With the disgusting mode of the ninth Bolgia.A cask by losing centre-piece or cant⁠Was never shattered so, as I saw one⁠Rent from the chin to where one breaketh wind.Between his legs were hanging down his entrails;⁠His heart was visible, and the dismal sack⁠That maketh excrement of what is eaten.While I was all absorbed in seeing him,⁠He looked at me, and opened with his hands⁠His bosom, saying: "See now how I rend me;How mutilated, see, is Mahomet;⁠In front of me doth Ali weeping go,⁠Cleft in the face from forelock unto chin;And all the others whom thou here beholdest,⁠Disseminators of scandal and of schism⁠While living were, and therefore are cleft thus.

View Quote And sweet to us is such a deprivation,Because our good in this good is made perfect,That whatsoe'er God wills, we also will.

View Quote And that Lord, who had led me thitherward,⁠Said unto me: "Fear not; because our passage⁠None can take from us, it by Such is given.But here await me, and thy weary spirit⁠Comfort and nourish with a better hope;⁠For in this nether world I will not leave thee."

View Quote And therefore raise thee up, o'ercome the anguish⁠With spirit that o'ercometh every battle,⁠If with its heavy body it sink not.

View Quote And you, the living soul, you over thereget away from all these people who are dead.

View Quote Another way my sapient Guide conducts me⁠Forth from the quiet to the air that trembles;And to a place I come where nothing shines.

View Quote As sheep come issuing forth from out the foldBy ones and twos and threes, and the others standTimidly, holding down their eyes and nostrils,And what the foremost does the others do,Huddling themselves against her, if she stop,Simple and quiet and the wherefore know not.

View Quote As the geometrician, who endeavoursTo square the circle, and discovers not,By taking thought, the principle he wants,Even such was I at that new apparition; I wished to see how the image to the circle Conformed itself, and how it there finds place;But my own wings were not enough for this, Had it not been that then my mind there smote A flash of lightning, wherein came its wish. Here vigour failed the lofty fantasy: But now was turning my desire and will, Even as a wheel that equally is moved,The Love which moves the sun and the other stars.