Abandon hope, all ye who enter here
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The famous line "Abandon hope all ye who enter here" may be carved into the gates of Hell, but so are the words "Divine power made me, the supreme wisdom and the primal love".
From The Guardian ● May 9, 2013
Or, more likely, Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
He thought of the Tuscan poet and wondered if it were possible that his bitter experience had called forth that direful inscription— "Abandon hope all ye who enter here."
From Marguerite Verne by Rebecca Agatha Armour
Even as in Dante's vision of the Inferno, so in the Temple of Buddha's scheme of life there is inscribed above its portals the words: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here."
From India, Its Life and Thought by John P. (John Peter) Jones
It is a very terrible little boat, quite at death's door, and might have had those lines of Dante's painted upon it without libel: "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."
From Rossmoyne by Unknown
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