abandon hope all ye who enter here

English

From Dante Alighieri's work Inferno, translated by Henry Francis Cary as “all hope abandon ye who enter here”, from the Italian lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate. The variant “abandon hope, all ye who enter here”, with a change of meaning, was likely chosen for its iambic pentameter.

Supposed inscription at the gate of hell.
- 2006, Karen Chance, Touch the Dark, Penguin, →ISBN:
  Visitors enter through a set of huge wrought-iron gates decorated with basalt statues writhing in agony and the famous phrase ABANDON HOPE, ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE.
- 2011, Harlan Carvey, Windows Registry Forensics: Advanced Digital Forensic Analysis of the Windows Registry, Elsevier, →ISBN:
  It seems that, in many instances, the “abandon hope, all ye who enter here” warning that Microsoft displays on its knowledge base articles regarding the Registry really do a good job of keeping the good guys out, […]

supposed inscription at the gate of hell

^ Gary Martin (1997–) “Abandon all hope ye who enter here”, in The Phrase Finder.,
^ Dante Alighieri (1814) “Canto III”, in H[enry] F[rancis] Cary, transl., The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I (Hell), London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, , →OCLC, page 10: “Before me things create were none, save things / Eternal, and eternal I endure. / All hope abandon ye who enter here.”
^ Dante Alighieri (c. 1308 – 1320) “Canto III”, in Divina Commedia (in Italian).