“Love is so short and forgetting is so long.”
Es tan corto el amor y tan largo el olvido.
"Tonight I Can Write" (Puedo Escribir), XX, p. 51.
Variant: Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Source: Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair) (1924)
“Love should not be polluted with friendship.”
Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
“The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.”
“I'm possessed by love — but isn't everybody?”
As quoted in "I am the Champion" by Nick Ferrari in The Sun (19 July 1985) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Freddie_Mercury_-_07-19-1985_-_The_Sun.
Context: I'm possessed by love — but isn't everybody? Most of my songs are love ballads and things to do with sadness and torture and pain.
In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
“Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them. ”
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
Variant: A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.”
“Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.”
As quoted by LIFE magazine (2 May 1955)
1950s
Variant: Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
“I would rather be hated for what I am, then loved for what I am not.”
Variant: I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.”
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.”
Variant: You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice...
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This Is It
