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.
Dante AlighieriRead
There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote expresses profound sorrow and turmoil within a dark and chaotic environment.
In this quote, Dante Alighieri describes a scene filled with intense emotions such as grief and anger, amplified by the eerie silence of a starless atmosphere. The imagery suggests a struggle with suffering and despair, evoking a sense of hopelessness that resonates throughout the chaos, indicating that such anguish may persist eternally in this dark realm.
Themes
SufferingAnguishDarknessEmotionsChaos
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about overcoming adversity, one might say, 'As Dante expressed, our lamentations may resound in the darkest of times.'
More from Dante Alighieri
All quotes →Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Dante AlighieriRead
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
Dante AlighieriRead
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
Dante AlighieriRead
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Dante AlighieriRead
Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.
Dante AlighieriRead
Similar quotes
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
DiogenesRead
If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool.
Keith RichardsRead
Were it part of our everyday education and comment that the corporation is an instrument for the exercise of power, that it belongs to the process by which we are governed, there would then be debate on how that power is used and how it might be made subordinate to the public will and need. This debate is avoided by propagating the myth that the power does not exist.
John Kenneth GalbraithRead
Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.
EuripidesRead
Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
Tatyana TolstayaRead
We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Thomas JeffersonRead