Alessandro Baricco Quotes

Italy, Writer
January 25, 1958

Alessandro Baricco is an Italian writer, director and performer. His novels have been translated into a wide number of languages. He currently lives in Rome with his wife and two sons.

Also known as Director, Performer

This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.

Alessandro Baricco
- Place
- Exist
- Seashore
Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

Alessandro Baricco
- Mind
- Made
- Resolutions

To die of yearning for something you will never experience.

Alessandro Baricco
- Experience
- Die
- Yearning
Reasons get forgotten.

Alessandro Baricco
- Forgotten
- Reasons
I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.

Alessandro Baricco
- Desire
- Happiness
- Loved
It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.

Alessandro Baricco
- Grief
- Lived
- Nostalgia
There is nothing that can, in the dark become true.

Alessandro Baricco
- True
- Dark
- Nothing
As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.

Alessandro Baricco
- Question
- Matter
- Answer

Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say.

Alessandro Baricco
- Life
- Say
- Side
Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.

Alessandro Baricco
- Future
- Want
- Flight
We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.

Alessandro Baricco
- Words
- Suffering
- Meaning