Giuseppe > Giuseppe's Quotes

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
― John Donne, No man is an island – A selection from the prose

“Le raccontai tutta la mia vita, non quella passata ma quella che avrei vissuto in futuro.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

“Attraverso i libri ho appreso che i cieli non sono affatto umani e che un uomo che sa pensare, anche lui non è umano, non che non lo voglia, ma ciò contrasta col giusto modo di pensare.”
― Bohumil Hrabal, Příliš hlučná samota

“Io credo nel mistero delle parole, e che le parole possano diventare vita, destino; così come diventano bellezza.”
― Leonardo Sciascia

“Mi sedetti alla macchina da scrivere e dentro di me si fece il vuoto, un vuoto terribile.”
― John Fante, Ask the Dust

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.”
― Muhammad Yunus, Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Io non sono nato per essere costretto. Respirerò liberamente. Vedremo chi è il più forte. Che forza ha una moltitudine? Solo chi risponde a una legge più alta della mia può costringermi a obbedire. Vogliono che diventi come loro. Ma non conosco uomini costretti a vivere in un modo o in un altro da masse di uomini. Che vita sarebbe quella?”
― Henry David Thoreau

“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
― Muriel Rukeyser