black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

Petrarch

Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!
PETRARCH

Beautiful Life Pain
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.
PETRARCH

Greatness Grief Light Live Love Myself
A good death does honour to a whole life.
PETRARCH

Death Goodness Life
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
PETRARCH

Greatness Togetherness
Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
PETRARCH

Effort Enough Longing
Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.
PETRARCH

Enemy Greatness Man Propose
Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
PETRARCH

Darkness Earth Eyes Forever Sight Yourself
Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
PETRARCH

Death Grudge Hands Himself
Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
PETRARCH

Earth Enemy Heart
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
PETRARCH

Cutting Desire Inspirational
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief.
PETRARCH

Argument Grief Himself
What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances.
PETRARCH

Earth Known Moral Myself Name
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.
PETRARCH

Amusement Enough Life Short
For style beyond the genius never dares.
PETRARCH

Beyond Dare Genius Style
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
PETRARCH

Book Leadership Learning Madness
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.
PETRARCH

Beginning Doubt End One Liner

I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Petrarch Quotes