The Inferno Quotes

“After I rested my wearied flesh a while,
I took my way again along the desert slope,
my firm foot always lower than the other.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Inferno

“If I were made of leaded glass
I could not reflect your outward likeness
in less time than I grasp the one inside you.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Inferno

“...human toil, as far as it is able,
follows nature, as the pupil does his master,
so that it is God's grandchild, as it were.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Inferno

“One people comes to rule, another languishes,
in keeping with her [fortune] judgement,
as secret as a serpent hidden in the grass.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Inferno