Petrarca Laura Quotes & Sayings

Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow. — Louise Imogen Guiney

If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can't turn back. There is now answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done.
-Deth to Morgon, Prince of Hed- — Patricia A. McKillip

When Marx got into a difficult position he would get angry and losing a game would cause him to fly into a rage. — Wilhelm Liebknecht

Poets, prophets and reformers are all picture-makers -- and this ability is the secret of their power and of their achievements. They see what ought to be by the reflection of what is, and endeavor to remove the contradiction, — Frederick Douglass

Nobby would nick anything and dodge anything, but he wasn't bad. You could trust him with your life, although you'd be daft to trust him with a dollar. — Terry Pratchett

Laura, illustrious through her own virtues, and long famed through my verses, first appeared to my eyes in my youth, in the year of our Lord 1327, on the sixth day of April, in the church of St. Clare in Avignon, at matins; and in the same city, also on the sixth day of April, at the same first hour, but in the year 1348, the light of her life was withdrawn from the light of day, while I, as it chanced, was in Verona, unaware of my fate ... — Francesco Petrarca

She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying
her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place.
It's folly to shrink in fear, if this is dying;
for death looked lovely in her face. — Francesco Petrarca

Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself. — Sarah Paulson

I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery. — Eva Herzigova

The Internet is an excellent invention for people with nothing better to do, and people with something better to do who nonetheless don't want to do it. — Amanda Sledz

Never would I trade for some new shape
that laurel I was first, in whose sweet shade
all other pleasures vanish in my heart. — Francesco Petrarca