Oriana Fallaci > Quotes

“عادت بدترین بیماریه. کاری می کنه که آدم به هر بدبختی و هر دردی سر خم کنه و بتونه کنار آدمای نفرت انگیز دووم بیاره”
― Oriana Fallaci, A Man

“You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.”
― Oriana Fallaci, Letter to a Child Never Born

“معلوم نیست انسان چرا همیشه عاشق کسی می شود که شایستگی عشق را ندارد.شاید این تنها راه برای باز یافتن تعالی از دست رفته ی دنیایی است که در آن زندگی می کنیم . این قدیمی ترین نوع خود آزاری است:عشق ورزی به کسی که قادر به عشق ورزی نیست.”
― Oriana Fallaci

“And yet, or just for this reason, it's so fascinating to be a woman. It's an adventure that takes such courage, a challenge that's never boring. You'll have so many things to engage you if you're born a woman. To begin with, you'll have to struggle to maintain that if God exists he might even be an old woman with white hair or a beautiful girl. Then you'll have to struggle to explain that it wasn't sin that was born on the day when Eve picked an apple, what was born that day was a splendid virtue called disobedience.”
― Oriana Fallaci, Letter to a Child Never Born

“خیلی سخته آدمی که خودش رو واسه مردن آماده کرده، بخواد بازم به زندگی برگرده!؛”
― Oriana Fallaci, A Man

“ زنده گی یعنی خسته گی!کوچولو!
زنده گی یه جنگه که هر روز تکرار میشه وُ عَوضِ شادیهاش –که تنها قدِ یه پِلک به هم زَدَن دَووم دارن – باید بَهای زیادی بِدی!

نامه به کودکی که هرگز زاده نشد -
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― Oriana Fallaci

“To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.”
― Oriana Fallaci, Letter to a Child Never Born

“نوشتن برای تو،وقتی ندانی که برایت نوشته ام به چه درد می خورد ؟”
― Oriana Fallaci, زندگی جنگ و دیگر هیچ

“La vita é una tale fatica, bambino. E una guerra che si ripete ogni giorno, e i suoi momenti di gioia sono parentesi brevi che si pagano un prezzo crudele.”
― Oriana Fallaci, Letter to a Child Never Born

“Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game.”
― Oriana Fallaci, The Rage and the Pride

“È la vita.
A volte credi che due occhi ti guardino e invece non ti vedono neanche. A volte credi d’aver trovato qualcuno che cercavi e invece non hai trovato nessuno. Succede. E se non succede è un miracolo. Ma i miracoli non durano mai”
― Oriana Fallaci

“I've found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And if, at its flowering, this season is a feast of greenery, at its waning, it's only a heap of rotting leaves.”
― Oriana Fallaci, Letter to a Child Never Born

“حسادت زانوهارو خم می کنه و خواب رو از آدم می دزده، و جیگر رو آتیش می زنه و فکر رو از کار میندازه. حسادت آدم رو با زهر سوءظن مسموم می کنه، حیثت و اخلاق آدم رو زیر سوال می بره. خودت رو گول خورده حس می کنی و تبدیل به پلیسی میشی که زندانبان معشوقتی! واسه همین باید همیشه عشق رو مرمت کرد”
― Oriana Fallaci, A Man

“Lottate, ragionate col vostro cervello, ricordate che ciascuno è qualcuno, un individuo prezioso, responsabile, artefice di se stesso, difendetelo il vostro io, nocciolo di ogni libertà, la libertà è un dovere, prima che un diritto è un dovere.”
― Oriana Fallaci, A Man

“Objectivity does not exist. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.”
― Oriana Fallaci

“Don’t let yourself be regimented by dogma, by uniforms, by doctrines, don’t let yourselves be fooled by those who command you, by those who promise, who frighten, by those who want to replace one master with another, don’t be flock of sheep, for heaven’s sake, don’t hide under the umbrella of other people’s guilt, think with your own brains, remember that each of you is somebody, a valuable individual, a responsible, his own maker, defend your being, the kernel of all freedom, freedom is a duty, a duty even more than right”
― Oriana Fallaci, A Man

“انسان به کندی تغییر می کند، به همان کندی ای که بهار تبدیل به تابستان و تابستان تبدیل به پاییز و پاییز تبدیل به زمستان می شود... هرگر کسی نمی فهمد در کدام لحظه بهار تبدیل به تابستان می شود. یک روز صبح از خواب بیدار می شویم و حس می کنیم هوا گرم است. تابستان وقتی ما در «خواب» بودیم فرارسیده است”
― Oriana Fallaci, If the Sun Dies

“One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all about. My guess is that it's just a gigantic hoax, invented to keep people quiet and diverted. Everyone talks about love: the priests, the advertising posters, the literati, and the politicians, those of them who make love. And in speaking of love and offering it as a panacea for every tragedy, they would and betray and kill both body and soul.”
― Oriana Fallaci, Letter to a Child Never Born

“No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.”
― Oriana Fallaci, Letter to a Child Never Born

“What's the point anyway — Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.”
― Oriana Fallaci, A Man

“Love isn’t putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die in the way he’s chosen.”
― Oriana Fallaci, A Man

“Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.”
― Oriana Fallaci, Letter to a Child Never Born

“Niente ferisce, avvelena, ammala, quanto la delusione. Perché la delusione è un dolore che deriva sempre da una speranza svanita, una sconfitta che nasce sempre da una fiducia tradita cioè dal voltafaccia di qualcuno o qualcosa in cui credevamo”
― Oriana Fallaci, Un cappello pieno di ciliege

“How can a man understand a woman who is expecting a child. He can't get pregnant. Is that an advantage or a limitation? Up until yesterday it seemed to me an advantage, even a privilege. Today it seems to me a limitation, even an impoverishment. There's something glorious about enclosing another life in your own body, in knowing yourself to be two instead of one. At moments you're even invaded by a sense of triumph, and in the serenity accompanying that triumph nothing bothers you: neither the physical pain you'll have to face, nor the work you'll have to sacrifice, nor the freedom you'll have to give up.”
― Oriana Fallaci, Letter to a Child Never Born

“I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.”
― Oriana Fallaci, Letter to a Child Never Born

“In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later, to give him pleasure and cause trouble. In the paintings that adorn churches, God is an old man with a beard, never an old woman with white hair. And all the heroes are males: from Prometheus who discovered fire to Icarus who tried to fly, on down to Jesus whom they call the Son of God and of the Holy Spirit, almost as though the woman giving birth to him were an incubator or a wetnurse.”
― Oriana Fallaci, Letter to a Child Never Born

“If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he’s fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose..”
― Oriana Fallaci, A Man

“برات نوشتم دیگه طاقت ندارم بشنوم که همه چیز تقصیر ژنرالا و مایه دارا و صاحبای قدرته! پس ما چه کاره ایم؟ اسم و رسم و شماره شناسنامه هایی که فقط به درد انتخابات و جنگا می خورن؟ یه ابزار تو دست مذهبیا و ایسما و ایدئولوژیا؟”
― Oriana Fallaci, A Man

“A lot of women ask themselves why they should bring a child into the world? So that it will be hungry, so that it will be cold, so that it will be betrayed and humiliated, so that it will be slaughtered by war or disease? They reject the hope that its hunger will be satisfied, its cold warmed, that loyalty and respect will accompany it through life, that it will be a devote a life to the effort to eliminate war and disease.”
― Oriana Fallaci, Letter to a Child Never Born

“I'll impose upon you the same arrogance that was imposed on me, and on my mother, my grandmother, my grandmother's mother: all the way back to the first human born of another human being, whether he liked it or not. Probably, if he or she had been allowed to choose, he would have been frightened and answered: No, I don't want to be born. But no one asked their opinion, and so they were born and lived and died after giving birth to another human being who was not asked to choose, and that one did likewise, for millions of years, right down to us.”
― Oriana Fallaci, Letter to a Child Never Born