Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath
Dante Alighieri
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
Author
Intellectual
Lyricist
Philosopher
Poet
Political Theorist
Politician
Prosaist
Writer
Florence
Tuscany
Dante
Durante degli Alighieri
Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri
Breath
Breaths
Dies
Lost
Life
More quotes by Dante Alighieri
They yearn for what they fear for.
Dante Alighieri
In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book if not all of them, at the least their substance.
Dante Alighieri
Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
Dante Alighieri
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Dante Alighieri
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
Dante Alighieri
No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.
Dante Alighieri
In each fire there is a spirit Each one is wrapped in what is burning him.
Dante Alighieri
Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.
Dante Alighieri
Follow your path, and let the people talk.
Dante Alighieri
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. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42
Dante Alighieri
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.
Dante Alighieri
The secret of getting things done is to act!
Dante Alighieri
Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent and here were every fruit and never-ending spring these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.
Dante Alighieri
As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.
Dante Alighieri
Where the way is hardest, there go thou Follow your own path and let people talk.
Dante Alighieri
I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.
Dante Alighieri
From a small spark, Great flame has risen.
Dante Alighieri
They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.
Dante Alighieri
Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!
Dante Alighieri
