Quotes by : Alberto Moravia

I gave up the unequal struggle against what appeared to be in my fate, indeed, I welcomed it with more....

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's....

An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last....

They say that, if we manage to live without too great an effort, it is entirely owing to the automatism....

Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this....

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

I felt that the metal of my spirit, like a bar of iron that is softened and bent by a persistent flame,....

The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't....

In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which....

This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only....