Quotes by : Giacomo Leopardi

Freedom is the dream you dreamWhile putting thought in chains again --

I get up and I bless the light thin clouds and the first twittering of birds and the breathing air and....

Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes....

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted....

You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much the master of the world as he who is ready to die.

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous but rather the studious way we try to....

In all climates under all skies man's happiness is always somewhere else.

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.....

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not....