The Project Gutenberg eBook of Dante's Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
“In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was, which in my thought renews the fear!”
―
Dante Alighieri,
The Divine Comedy
―
Dante Alighieri,
The Divine Comedy
A quote from The Divine Comedy

IN the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray
Dante Alighieri • The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Complete

“It is filled with labors and burdens, it is uncertain and long, it is hunger and thirst, sedition and temptation, a desert, filled with sighing, weeping, wailing, and tribulations.”