
“Carmina proveniunt animo deducta sereno.”
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at ease.
I, i, 39
Tristia (Sorrows)
Our best support and succor in distress is fortitude of mind. (translator Thornton)
Captivi, Act II, scene 1, line 8
Variant translation: The best assistance in distress is fortitude of soul. (translator unknown)
Captivi (The Prisoners)
“Carmina proveniunt animo deducta sereno.”
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at ease.
I, i, 39
Tristia (Sorrows)
“I have withdrawn the red dress, the mala”
The Last Testament, Vol. 3
Context: I have withdrawn the red dress, the mala, because thousands of people wanted to be sannyasins but just because of the clothes and the mala they felt difficulties in the world — their job, their family, their wife, their parents, their friends — and it was too much of a trouble. I have withdrawn everything. Now whatsoever remains is something inner which neither the wife can detect nor the father nor the job nor the friends.
“My name is Bono and I am a rock star.”
An allusion to Apple Computer's "switch" commercials, which ended with such statements.
PENN Address (2004)
“Look out pop-culture! Bono has had enough of 'romantic love'.”
The eleven worst songs of 2004 http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=11worst
The Best Page in the Universe
Reported in Dante Leonardi, Spighe d'oro, Remo Sandron Editore, 1924.
Untranslated
“Si fractum non sit, noli id reficere.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.”
Latin for All Occasions (1990)
“"Better to die because of you, rather than dying still!"
(from Domani si adesso no, 1985)”
Song lyrics
“Non può dirsi felice uno, se non quando si contenta del proprio stato.”
Reported in Dante Leonardi, Spighe d'oro, Remo Sandron Editore, 1924.
Untranslated
“Si se yo ki pou Met nan men'm, m'pito manje kaka twou nen'm.”
This quote is in Haitian Creole
https://m.imdb.com/name/nm11318964/quotes?ref_=m_nm_trv_trv