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“There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“And I — my head oppressed by horror — said:
"Master, what is it that I hear? Who are
those people so defeated by their pain?"
      And he to me: "This miserable way
is taken by the sorry souls of those
who lived without disgrace and without praise.
      They now commingle with the coward angels,
the company of those who were not rebels
nor faithful to their God, but stood apart.
      The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened,
have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them —
even the wicked cannot glory in them.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the
other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“I am the way into the city of woe,
I am the way into eternal pain,
I am the way to go among the lost.

Justice caused my high architect to move,
Divine omnipotence created me,
The highest wisdom, and the primal love.

Before me there were no created things
But those that last forever—as do I.
Abandon all hope you who enter here.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Through me is the way to the city of woe.
Through me is the way to sorrow eternal.
Through me is the way to the lost below. Justice moved my architect supernal.
I was constructed by divine power,
supreme wisdom, and love primordial.
Before me no created things were.
Save those eternal, and eternal I abide.
Abandon all hope, you who enter.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“There is no greater sorrow
than thinking back upon a happy time
in misery--”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“For pride and avarice and envy are the three fierce sparks that set all hearts ablaze.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
[Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“So many times a man's thoughts will waver, That it turns him back from honored paths, As false sight turns a beast, when he is afraid.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“These dwell among the blackest souls, loaded down deep by sins of differing types. If you sink far enough, you'll see them all.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“And now, I pray you, tell me who you are: do not be harder than I've been with you that in the world your name may still endure.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“it is his fate to enter every door. This has been willed where what is willed must be, and is not yours to question. Say no more.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Wisdom is earned, not given”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“I make no other answer than the act,
the Master said: "The only fit reply
to a fit request is silence and the fact." [XXIV]”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Here all suspicion must be abandoned, All cowardice must be extinct.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Through me you go to the grief wracked city; Through me you go to everlasting pain; Through me you go a pass among lost souls. Justice inspired my exalted Creator: I am a creature of the Holiest Power, of Wisdom in the Highest and of Primal Love. Nothing till I was made was made, only eternal beings. And I endure eternally. Surrender as you enter, every hope you have.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“These have no hope that death will overcome.
And so degraded is the life they lead
all look with envy on all other fates.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno