“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!”
"Fra Lippo Lippi, line 54.
Men and Women (1855)
Variant: Without love, our earth is a tomb
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Robert Browning179
English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era 1812–1889Related quotes
“[Marriage] is the tomb of love.”
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, vol. 9, chap. 8, p. 208 ("She will not believe it, for she knows too well that marriage is a sacrament which I detest." "Why?" "Because it is the tomb of love.")
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Abbott Eliot Kittredge (1834–1912) American minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 32.
Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer
On his relationship with Mary Austin, as quoted in "Rock On Freddie" (1985).
Context: Our love affair ended in tears but a deep bond grew out of it, and that's something nobody can take away from us. It's unreachable … All my lovers ask me why they can't replace her, but it's simply impossible.
I don't feel jealous of her lovers because. of course, she has a life to lead, and so do I. Basically, I try to make sure she's happy with whoever she's with and she tries to do the same for me.
We look after each other and that's a wonderful form of love. I might have all the problems in the world, but I have Mary and that gets me through.
“And some aged man in homage to his ancient love will yearly place a garland on her mounded tomb, and, as he goes, will say: "Sleep well and peacefully, and above thy untroubled ashes let the earth be light."”
Atque aliquis senior veteres veneratus amores<br/>annua constructo serta dabit tumulo,<br/>et "bene" discedens dicet "placideque quiescas,<br/>terraque securae sit super ossa levis."
Tibullus (-50–-19 BC) poet and writer (0054-0019)
Atque aliquis senior veteres veneratus amores
annua constructo serta dabit tumulo,
et "bene" discedens dicet "placideque quiescas,
terraque securae sit super ossa levis."
Bk. 2, no. 4, line 47.
Elegies
Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782) Italian poet and librettist (born 3 January 1698, died 12 April 1782)
Il torre altrui la vita
È facoltà commune
Al più vil della terra; il darla è solo
De' Numi, e de' Regnanti.
La Clemenza di Tito (1734), Act III, scene 7.
“Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.”
Alice Hoffman book The Dovekeepers
Source: The Dovekeepers
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…
Remark to Galeazzo Ciano (December 19, 1937) quoted in The Book of Italian Wisdom (2003) by Antonio Santi, p. 50
1930s
“Love does not take away from one in order to give to another.”
Ruslana Koršunova (1987–2008) fashion model
"Model's Web rants pined for love" in Daily News (29 June 2009)