The best Dante's Inferno quotes

Then I uprose, showing myself provided; Better with breath than I did feel myself, And said: “Go on, for I am strong and bold.

Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people.

From there we came outside and saw the stars.

In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

One should only be afraid of those things Which have the power of doing others harm; For the rest, fear not; because they are not fearful.

How rough that wood was, wild, and terrible: By the mere thought my terror is renewed.

There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.

It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God’s own love first set in motion those fair things.

Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.

Soon you will be where your own eyes will see the source and cause and give you their own answer to the mystery.

Only as a man surrenders himself to Devine Love may he hope for salvation, and salvation is open to all who surrender themselves