Top 15 Torquato Tasso Quotes

Any time not spent on love is wasted.

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does

Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.

Hadst thou but tasted once the thousandth part
Of joys, which bless the loved and loving heart,
Your words repentant and your sighs would prove,
Lost is the time which is not past in love.

Read, whilst you arm you; arm you, whilst you read.

Oh che sanguinosa e spaziosa porta
Fa l'una e l'altra spada ovunque giugna,
Nell'arme e nelle carni! E se la vita
Non esce, sdegno tienla al petto unita.

Oh meraviglia! Amor, ch’a pena è nato,
già grande vola, e già trionfa armato.

… Could I return, I will not say to revel, but breath this sky, under which I was born: to rejoice with sea views and gardens; to consol me with your kindness; to drink this wine or this water, that might reduce my illness…

ma un mio sospiro ardente
fu più verace testimon del core;

"Bramo assai, poco spero"
("Hope for much, expect little")

Clorinda fui, né sol qui spirto umano
albergo in questa pianta rozza e dura,
ma ciascun altro ancor, franco o pagano,
che lassi i membri a piè de l'alte mura,
astretto è qui da novo incanto e strano,
non so s'io dica in corpo o in sepoltura.

Foolish is he who builds an empire where
the sole foundation is of worldly clay

Colpo ch’ad un sol noccia
unqua non scende,
Ma indiviso è il dolor d’ogni ferita.
E spesso è l’un ferito, e l’altro langue:
E versa l’alma quel, se questa il sangue.

Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing

The way to honor, way to safety is.