All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!

Abandon every hope, all you who enter.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here. (lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate)

¡Oh vosotros los que entráis, abandonad toda esperanza!

Abandon hope.

Surrender as you enter every hope you have!

Before me things created were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Before me there were no created things, Only eternity, and I too, last eternal. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!

Before me nothing was created but eternal things and I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye that enter.

Life and hope must cease together.

The pessimist writes over the gates of life what the poet has inscribed on the portals of hell—”Abandon hope, ye who enter here.”

The fierce poet of the Middle Ages wrote, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here," over the gates of the lower world. The emancipated poets of to-day have written it over the gates of this world.

The only chance of life lies in giving up all hope of it.