Quotes by : Giacomo Leopardi

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.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

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

Seated here in contemplations lost, my thought discovers vaster space beyond, supernal silence and unfathomed....

He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote,....

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