Top 40 Alberto Moravia Quotes
#1. For happiness, he told himself, isn't being loved; that was just a slightly nauseous satisfaction of vanity. Happiness is loving and perhaps seizing a few short illusory moments of intimacy with the object of one's love.
Thomas Mann
#2. When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.
Alberto Moravia
#3. I love you, I think as my heart seems to expand inside me.
And you'll hurt me.
You'll burn me.
You'll mark me.
But it's already worth it.
Karina Halle
#5. Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end by falsifying and fictionalizing - I'm a liar, in fact. That means I'm a novelist, after all. I write about what I know.
Alberto Moravia
#6. Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.
Masayoshi Son
#7. Create content that satisfies your uber goals and desires.
Tom Webster
#8. My boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality
just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust.
Alberto Moravia
#9. Rita got the best of us. We took quite a beating. It's going to take a while to come back from this.
Rick Fox
#10. This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.
Alberto Moravia
#11. We add to the most ideal course of cancer treatment in light of the one of a kind qualities of a patient's case.
Cancercenter
#12. And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.
Alberto Moravia
#13. The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty]
Alberto Moravia
#14. Desire for normality; a longing to adapt to some recognized and general rule; a wish to be like everyone else, from the moment that being different meant being guilty.
Alberto Moravia
#15. When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
Alberto Moravia
#16. I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.
Alberto Moravia
#18. In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
Alberto Moravia
#19. My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.
Madeline Kahn
#20. I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.
Alberto Moravia
#21. Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
Alberto Moravia
#22. I do not foresee a time when I shall feel that I have nothing to say.
Alberto Moravia
#23. There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.
Graham T. Allison
#24. Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
Alberto Moravia
#25. Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.
Alberto Moravia
#26. I gave up the unequal struggle against what appeared to be in my fate, indeed, I welcomed it with more affection. As one embraces a foe one can't defeat and I felt liberated.
Alberto Moravia
#27. War has become an affair of machines ... and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.
Alberto Moravia
#28. From a distance I became more convinced than ever that Almighty God destined us to become a great people.
Janio Quadros
#29. You're a tough, fragile, brave, cowardly woman.
Samanthe Beck
#30. Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for one moment forget that he is living in a world in which he is a means and whose end is not his business.
Alberto Moravia
#31. It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.
Alberto Moravia
#32. A person who looks at the table and can see the universe is a person who can see the way.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#33. It is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious, clamoring mind will hush if you give it an egg.
Annie Dillard
#34. God can turn everything that seems negative in our life around and make it positive, for our good
Sunday Adelaja
#35. You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.
Alberto Moravia
#37. Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.
Alberto Moravia
#38. An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.
Alberto Moravia
#39. The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.
Alberto Moravia
#40. The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
Alberto Moravia
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