Top 15 Francesco Petrarca Quotes (2024 Update)

Francesco Petrarca Quote: “I wish to go beyond the fire that burns me.”

1. “I wish to go beyond the fire that burns me.”

— Francesco Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca Quote: “I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.”

2. “I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.”

— Francesco Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca Quote: “Altro diletto che imparar, non provo.”

3. “Altro diletto che imparar, non provo.”

— Francesco Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca Quote: “Time is our delight and our prison. It binds all human beings together, since we all share the pleasures and burdens of memory, and we all know the anticipation of cherished goals and the dark prospect of personal mortality.”

4. “Time is our delight and our prison. It binds all human beings together, since we all share the pleasures and burdens of memory, and we all know the anticipation of cherished goals and the dark prospect of personal mortality.”

— Francesco Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca Quote: “Everything else, every thought, goes fore and forever fades away into the recesses of time, and therein what remains is my soul’s love for you.”

5. “Everything else, every thought, goes fore and forever fades away into the recesses of time, and therein what remains is my soul’s love for you.”

— Francesco Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca Quote: “And what is the use of knowing many things if, when you have learned the dimensions of heaven and earth, the measure of the seas, the courses of stars, the virtues of plants and stones, the secrets of nature, you still don’t know yourself?”

6. “And what is the use of knowing many things if, when you have learned the dimensions of heaven and earth, the measure of the seas, the courses of stars, the virtues of plants and stones, the secrets of nature, you still don’t know yourself?”

— Francesco Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca Quote: “Among the many subjects which interested me, I dwelt especially upon antiquity, for our own age has always repelled me, so that, had it not been for the love of those dear to me, I should have preferred to place myself in spirit in other ages, and consequently I delighted in history.”

7. “Among the many subjects which interested me, I dwelt especially upon antiquity, for our own age has always repelled me, so that, had it not been for the love of those dear to me, I should have preferred to place myself in spirit in other ages, and consequently I delighted in history.”

— Francesco Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca Quote: “Laura, illustrious through her own virtues, and long famed through my verses, first appeared to my eyes in my youth, in the year of our Lord 1327, on the sixth day of April, in the church of St. Clare in Avignon, at matins; and in the same city, also on the sixth day of April, at the same first hour, but in the year 1348, the light of her life was withdrawn from the light of day, while I, as it chanced, was in Verona, unaware of my fate...”

8. “Laura, illustrious through her own virtues, and long famed through my verses, first appeared to my eyes in my youth, in the year of our Lord 1327, on the sixth day of April, in the church of St. Clare in Avignon, at matins; and in the same city, also on the sixth day of April, at the same first hour, but in the year 1348, the light of her life was withdrawn from the light of day, while I, as it chanced, was in Verona, unaware of my fate...”

— Francesco Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca Quote: “I cannot have a sufficiency of books. Indeed, I have more than I should... Books give utter delight: they talk with us... and are bound to us by lively and witty intimacy, and do not just insinuate themselves alone on their readers but present the names of others, and each one creates a longing for another.”

9. “I cannot have a sufficiency of books. Indeed, I have more than I should... Books give utter delight: they talk with us... and are bound to us by lively and witty intimacy, and do not just insinuate themselves alone on their readers but present the names of others, and each one creates a longing for another.”

— Francesco Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca Quote: “Learning is my sole delight.”

10. “Learning is my sole delight.”

— Francesco Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca Quote: “I stop, then, in my tracks, to recollect the awesome presence that I’ve left behind, the road ahead so long, my life so short, and bow my head and burst out into tears. While.”

11. “I stop, then, in my tracks, to recollect the awesome presence that I’ve left behind, the road ahead so long, my life so short, and bow my head and burst out into tears. While.”

— Francesco Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca Quote: “Sweet is the death that taketh end by love.”

12. “Sweet is the death that taketh end by love.”

— Francesco Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca Quote: “How much I envy you, you greedy earth, who get to clasp the one who’s taken from me, and keep me from the air of her sweet face in which I once found peace from all my war! How.”

13. “How much I envy you, you greedy earth, who get to clasp the one who’s taken from me, and keep me from the air of her sweet face in which I once found peace from all my war! How.”

— Francesco Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca Quote: “And what good has all your reading done you? Out of all the things you have read, how much has really stayed in your soul, what roots have grown there that will, in a good time, bring forth fruit? Examine your heart carefully. If you compare the whole of what you know with what you don’t know, you will find that your knowledge is like a small stream dried up in the summer heat compared to the ocean of your ignorance. And even granted that you do know a lot, what difference does it make?”

14. “And what good has all your reading done you? Out of all the things you have read, how much has really stayed in your soul, what roots have grown there that will, in a good time, bring forth fruit? Examine your heart carefully. If you compare the whole of what you know with what you don’t know, you will find that your knowledge is like a small stream dried up in the summer heat compared to the ocean of your ignorance. And even granted that you do know a lot, what difference does it make?”

— Francesco Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca Quote: “Blessed be the eyes that saw her while she lived!” 310.”

15. “Blessed be the eyes that saw her while she lived!” 310.”

— Francesco Petrarca

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