Quotes by Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

Dictionary

Embrace

Language

Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul’s boundless needs.

Boredom

Expression

Profound

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

Baby

Children

Men

Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.

Evil

Leaving

Suffering

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation’s childhood is its mythical age.

Age

Childhood

Men

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

He who doubts, knows – knows as much as can be known.

Doubt

Known

Knows

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

Dream

Laughing

Love

I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

Men

Running

Talking

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

Age

May

Mouths

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Art

Artist

Baby

Believe

Boredom

Breathing Space

Childhood

Children

Desire

Dictionary

Discipline

Doubt

Dream

Embrace

Empty

Ends

Everyday

Evil

Expression

Fate

Followers

Foxes

Happiness

Heart

Heaven

Humans

Ifs

Ignorance

Illusion

Known

Knows

Language

Laughing

Laughter

Leaving

Life Is

Love

May

Men

Mouths

Needs

Opinion

Pain

People

Philosophical

Profound

Running

Scientist

Sex

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Quotes by Giacomo Leopardi

Giacomo Leopardi

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul’s boundless needs.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation’s childhood is its mythical age.

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

He who doubts, knows – knows as much as can be known.

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

I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

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