Love & Life Sayings

22 sayings found from the Medieval era from 22 authors

What shall I say of the appalling violation of women, of which it is more evil to speak than to keep silent?

— Pope Urban II 1095
Life & Death

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty.

— Kabir 15th Century
Nature & World

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

— Thomas Aquinas Approx. 1274
Life & Death

The birds have vanished into the sky and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.

— Li Bai c. 701-762 CE
Nature & World

The city has fallen: only the hills and rivers remain. In Spring the streets were green with grass and trees.

— Du Fu c. 757 CE
Nature & World

How strange a thing is the heart of man!

— Murasaki Shikibu c. 1000-1012 CE
Love & Relationships

I once asked a bird, 'How do you fly in this gravity of darkness?' She responded, 'love lifts me.'

— Hafez c. 1325-1390 CE
Love & Relationships

Of remedies of love he knew al chaunce, / And everich of hem knew he bet than his page.

— Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1387-1400
Love & Relationships

My empire is built on blood and iron, but sustained by loyalty and discipline.

— Genghis Khan Unknown
Life & Death

I am a Frank, but I love the Latin tongue.

— Charlemagne c. 790
Love & Relationships

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

— Avicenna (Ibn Sina) 11th century
Life & Death

The secrets of nature are not revealed to those who rely on books alone.

— Roger Bacon 1267
Nature & World

God's teeth, I would rather die than renounce my faith!

— Richard the Lionheart 1191
Life & Death

The sea is one of the most powerful and wonderful things I have ever seen and I wish to remain by the sea all the time.

— Ibn Battuta c. 1320s-1340s
Nature & World

The greatest evil that can befall men is that they should consider themselves as perfect.

— Maimonides c. 1190
Life & Death

Hold! Hold! For by the Splendour of God, I have taken possession of my kingdom; the earth of England is in my two hands.

— William the Conqueror 1066
Nature & World

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

— Rumi 13th Century
Nature & World

The Potter's Circle, where the pots are made, and broken, and made again, is the symbol of life and death.

— Omar Khayyam c. 11th-12th century
Life & Death

If you want to destroy any nation without war, make adultery or nudity common in the young generation.

— Saladin c. 1190
Life & Death

Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hatred, and hatred leads to violence. This is the equation.

— Averroes (Ibn Rushd) c. 1180 CE
Life & Death
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