Source: Run, Melos! and Other Stories
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Variant: Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“He who grows old in love, besides all pain
Which waits such passion, well deserves a chain.”
Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
A chi in amor s'invecchia, oltr'ogni pena,
Si convengono i ceppi e la catena.
Canto XXIV, stanza 2 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Vittoria Colonna
Vittoria Colonna.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher
Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity!
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Senator Barack Obama’s speech to supporters after the Feb. 5 2018 nominating contests, as provided by Federal News Service and released in the New York Times (5 February 2008) https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/us/politics/05text-obama.html <br class="br">2008
Noah Cicero (1980) American writer
Source: The Condemned
