Quotes on Divine Comedy

I saw within Its depth how It conceives_x000D_ _x000D_ All things in a single volume bound by Love_x000D_ _x000D_ of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Midway upon the journey of our life

For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms...

The devil is not as black as he is painted.