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Michelangelo Buonarroti Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“Here in your lovely face I see, my lord, what in this life no words could ever tell.”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti, Poems and Letters
Tagged: Awe, When Words Fail
“If fire were equal to the loveliness that burns in your bright eyes, the coldest regions of the world would flame like fiery arrows flaring as they pass.”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti, Poems and Letters
Tagged: Love, Pick Up Lines, Descriptions of Beautiful Eyes
“This love I live is nowhere in my heart, it cannot stay with what is mortal, where it meets with error and with evil thought.”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti, Poems and Letters
Tagged: Platonism, Transcendental Love, Ideals Corrupted By Reality, Life Under The Shadow of Idealism
“Your beauty, Love, is not a mortal thing: there is no face among us that can match the image in the heart you rule and touch with fire.”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti, Poems and Letters
Tagged: Love, Sexual/Love Transcendence, Too Pure To Be Touched
“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Element
Tagged: Ambition
“When I’m without you for a single day, wherever I may be, I get no peace”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti, Poems and Letters
Tagged: Love
“Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti, Character Sketches: Or, The Blackboard Mirror
Tagged: beauty, Aesthetics
“My life’s not mine, but that of sin alone.”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti, Poems and Letters
“She bleeds me pint by pint and saps my body.”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti, Poems and Letters
Tagged: Femme Fatale, Cruel/Beautiful, You Kill Me
“A sweet dwelling-place in hell.”
— Michelangelo Buonarroti, Poems and Letters
Tagged: Lust, Paradoxes
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