Goliarda Sapienza Quotes

#1. The tightrope of love swings back and forth, forever tied between the tree of anxiety and the tree of fear. Like life, it holds a constant reminder that death must be overcome ...

Goliarda Sapienza

#2. [ ... ] as if the next thing must quickly come along to occupy her, or the abyss might open. What abyss? The abyss that waits for all of us, when all our actions seem futile, when the ability to fill the day seems stalled, and the waiting takes on an edge of dread.

Anita Brookner

#3. The younger generation will come knocking at my door.

Henrik Ibsen

#4. The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.

Warren Farrell

#5. Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#6. I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.

Ashley Judd

#7. Once you're already in hell, it's too late to beg for mercy.

Devon Ashley

#8. I asked if he thought the ratio of good ones to scum was higher or lower than in society at large.
"It's the same," he said. "Of course." It was the same everywhere, he added: an immutable law.

Haruki Murakami

#9. I am afraid of him now. The one I love most in the world.

Neil Jordan

#10. Surprise is the enemy of prudence.

Goliarda Sapienza

#11. A centuries-old message from my depths, it warned me to guard against myself, and go running in the sun.

Goliarda Sapienza

#12. Distance is a good teacher. You only fully understand that which you have lost.

Goliarda Sapienza