“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar
Variant: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Variant: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart.
“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
Source: The Bell Jar
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Una donna non deve essere violata neanche con il pensiero. Una donna è il paradiso da vedere vietato toccare senza permesso.
Source: prevale.net
“You're my best friend, my first and only love, and the most beautiful girl I've ever seen”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: Fang
“Even here, merit will have its true reward…
even here, the world is a world of tears
and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.”
Sunt hic etiam sua praemia laudi,
Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Lines 461–462 (tr. Robert Fagles)
“I must at least tell somebody, even only God and myself, what I have seen and felt.”
Mark Heard (1951–1992) American musician and record producer
Life in the Industry: A Musician's Diary
“Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.”
Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) writer and poet from England
To the Imitator of the First Satire of Horace, Book ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)