Ovid

Ovid

30 quotes

Ovid is a Roman poet whose words have traveled far beyond their original audience. Whether reflecting on Love or Death, Ovid brought uncommon clarity to every subject. 37 of Ovid's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Love, Death, Women, Strength, and Medical. One quote that captures their voice: "Time is generally the best doctor."

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“What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.”

— Ovid

Alone

All Quotes by Ovid

“If you want to be loved, be lovable.”

— Ovid

Love

“Beauty is a fragile gift.”

— Ovid

Beauty

“An evil life is a kind of death.”

— Ovid

Death

“Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.”

— Ovid

Health

“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.”

— Ovid

Death

“Bear patiently with a rival.”

— Ovid

Patience

“Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.”

— Ovid

Death

“Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts.”

— Ovid

Anger

“Fortune and love favor the brave.”

— Ovid

Love

“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”

— Ovid

Happiness

“The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.”

— Ovid

Cool

“Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.”

— Ovid

Women

“Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.”

— Ovid

Women

“First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.”

— Ovid

Morning

“Time is generally the best doctor.”

— Ovid

Best

“Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.”

— Ovid

Good

“Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.”

— Ovid

Anger

“My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.”

— Ovid

Hope

“What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps with it alone, she lives.”

— Ovid

Alone

“Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.”

— Ovid

Beauty