Italian Novelist Quotes

Luigi Pirandello

Alessandro Manzoni

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Elsa Morante

Umberto Saba

Can't you see that your conscience means, in fact, those others inside you?

Luigi Pirandello

As always the thought of his own death calmed him as much as that of others disturbed him: was it perhaps because, when all was said and done, his own death would in the first place mean that of the whole world?

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

The greater the attention to the sentence, the more laboriously the story flows.

But what is history, Don Ferrante would often say, without politics? A guide who walks on and on with no one following to learn the road, so that his every step is wasted; just as politics without history is like a man who walks along without a guide.

Alessandro Manzoni

Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.

Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born. And this is what distinguishes him from the other species. Every individual, even the least intelligent, the lowest of outcasts, from childhood on gives himself some explanation of the world. And with it he manages to live. And without it, he would sink into madness.