Top 32 Ginzburg's Quotes
#1. The raw beauty of Natalia Ginzburg's prose compels our gaze. First we look inward, with the shock of recognition inspired by all great writing, and then, inevitably, out at the shared world she evokes with such uncompromising clarity.
Hilma Wolitzer
#2. I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.
Natalia Ginzburg
#3. You must be practically a hero to retain your composure in the midst of universal panic. But just try to scream and tear around when everyone else is going about his business
that takes a lot of audacity.
Lidiya Ginzburg
#5. But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.
Natalia Ginzburg
#6. I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.
Natalia Ginzburg
#7. Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.
Graham Greene
#8. It seemed to us that his sadness was that of a boy, the voluptuous heedless melancholy of a boy who has still not come down to earth, and moves in the arid, solitary world of dreams.
Natalia Ginzburg
#9. As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.
Natalia Ginzburg
#10. England is a country where people stay exactly as they are. The soul does not receive the slightest jolt.
Natalia Ginzburg
#11. Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
Natalia Ginzburg
#12. Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
Ann Voskamp
#14. Someone who has seen a house collapse knows only too clearly what frail things little vases of flowers and pictures and white walls are. He knows only too well what a house is made of.
Natalia Ginzburg
#15. Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.
Natalia Ginzburg
#16. Humans abhor a vacuum. The immediate filling of a vacuum is one of the basic functions of speech. Meaningless conversations are no less important in our lives than meaningful ones.
Lidiya Ginzburg
#17. What we must remember above all in the education of our children is that their love of life should never weaken.
Natalia Ginzburg
#18. The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.
Natalia Ginzburg
#19. Death can be successfully put out of mind for the simple reason that it is beyond human experience. Death is either the abstract concept of nonexistence or the emotion of fear.
Lidiya Ginzburg
#20. And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all.
Natalia Ginzburg
#21. Italy is a country which is willing to submit itself to the worst governments. It is, as we know, a country ruled by disorder, cynicism, incompetence and confusion. Nevertheless we are aware of intelligence circulating in the streets like a vivid bloodstream.
Natalia Ginzburg
#22. Being moderate with oneself and generous with others; this is what is meant by having a just relationship with money, by being free as far as money is concerned.
Natalia Ginzburg
#23. We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.
Natalia Ginzburg
#24. You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
Natalia Ginzburg
#25. Pity is the most destructive of the passions and unlike love and anger, it never passes.
Lydia Ginzburg
#26. When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.
Natalia Ginzburg
#27. I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for me, it's just boring.
Andrew Bird
#29. But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever
only now do I realize it.
Natalia Ginzburg
#30. Human relationships have to be rediscovered every day. We have to remember constantly that every kind of meeting with our neighbor is a human action and so it is always evil or good, true or deceitful, a kindness or a sin.
Natalia Ginzburg
#31. I like when I have to act and direct; then, when you have to dub, you're by yourself in front of the wall, and I'm always scared that you're not good like when you are in real when you act.
Monica Bellucci
#32. My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.
Natalia Ginzburg
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