“I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.”
“You will hear it for yourself, and it will surely fill you with wonder.”
Source: The Travels
“I have not told half of what I saw.”
Non ho scritto neppure la metà delle cose che ho visto.
On his death-bed, when urged to retract "some of the seemingly incredible statements he made in his book", as quoted in The travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian (J. M. Dent, 1926), p. xxiv. Quote in Italian from Imago mundi seu Chronica (c. 1330) by Jacopo d'Acqui, as reported in the bibliographic note to Marco Polo: Storia del mercante che capì la Cina (2009) by Vito Bianchi.
“Life is hard but so very beautiful”
“Who knows?
Better times may come to those in pain.”
Forsan miseros meliora sequentur.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Line 153 (tr. Fagles)
“It's easier to build strong children then repair broken men.”
Variant: It is easier to build strong men, than to repair broken ones.
Source: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
“When I fall in love, it will be forever.”
Source: Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.”
As quoted in The Story of Civilization : The Age of Reason Begins, 1558-1648 (1935) by Will Durant, p. 605
Attributed
“Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.”
"Herbert West: Re-Animator" in "Home Brew" Vol. 1, No. 1 (February 1922)
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