Parlement of Foules, l. 1-4; comparable with Hippocrates, Aphorisms 1:1
Origine: The Parliament of Birds
„Love is so short and forgetting is so long.“
— Pablo Neruda, libro Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Es tan corto el amor y tan largo el olvido.
"Tonight I Can Write" (Puedo Escribir), XX, p. 51.
Variante: Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Origine: Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) (1924)
— Pablo Neruda, libro Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Origine: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
„That more would he serve, if life
Were not so short for love so long.“
— Luís de Camões Portuguese poet 1524 - 1580
Mais servira, se não fora
Para tão longo amor tão curta a vida.
tr. Norwood Andrews
Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças, Sete anos de pastor Jacob servia
— Florbela Espanca Portuguese poet 1894 - 1930
Tenho por ti uma paixão
Tão forte tão acrisolada,
Que até adoro a saudade
Quando por ti é causada
Quoted in Citações e pensamentos de Florbela Espanca (2011), p. 192
Translation by John D. Godinho
„I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.“
— Noel Coward English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer 1899 - 1973
Origine: Quote in Margaret McManus, "Noël Coward a 'Blithe Spirit' — in Sunny Jamaica", The Des Moines Register (January 8, 1956), Section: Iowa TV Magazine, p. 5
— Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer 1850 - 1894
"Lay Morals" Ch. 4, in Lay Morals and Other Essays (1911) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/373.
— Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere
Non è sí duro cor che, lagrimando,
pregando, amando, talor non si smova,
né sí freddo voler, che non si scalde.
Canzone 265, st. 4
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Death
„It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much.“
— Chuck Klosterman, libro Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Origine: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
„Love hath so long possessed me for his own
And made his lordship so familiar.“
— Dante Alighieri, libro Vita Nuova
Sì lungiamente m'ha tenuto Amore
e costumato a la sua segnoria
Origine: La Vita Nuova (1293), Chapter XXIV
„Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away.“
— Kate DiCamillo, The Magician's Elephant
Origine: The Magician's Elephant
„I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.“
— Sylvia Plath American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932 - 1963
Origine: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
„It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved.
[Vincent Van Gogh]“
— Irving Stone, libro Lust for Life
Origine: Lust for Life
„Life is too short, or too long, for me to allot myself the luxury of living it so badly.“
— Paulo Coelho, libro Undici minuti
Variante: Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
Origine: Eleven Minutes
— Halldór Laxness Icelandic author 1902 - 1998
Sjálfstætt fólk (Independent People) (1935), Book One, Part II: Free of Debt
„Why is it so hard to say no to him? Is this what it's like to be in love with somebody?“
— Jenny Han, libro To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Origine: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
