Elena Ferrante Quotes

Estrangement and belonging, an effect of distance and closeness at the same time.

Elena Ferrante

• Distance
• Closeness
• Estrangement

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• The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Feelings
  • Ability
  • Distance

• If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Me
  • Myself

• A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Long
  • Distance
  • Busy

• We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Eyes
  • Smile
  • Distance

• A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Time
  • Distance
  • Big

• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Human
  • Distance
  • Wonderful

• One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Long
  • Man
  • Past

• Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Myself
  • Distance
  • Insecurity

• Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • Truth
  • Earth
  • Problem

• I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Think
  • Moments
  • Distance

• I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Up
  • Country
  • Imagination

• Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • People
  • Up
  • Beauty

• I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Fly

• The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Up
  • Great
  • Distance

• You’ll find the distance that separates you from them, by joining them.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Distance

• The distance between me and my readers is the Internet. I can communicate with them and respond to every email I get or every mention on Twitter.

  

  Bob Mayer
  • Distance

• For me, when I 'discover' a story, there is a feeling of buoyancy and clarity, perhaps similar to early morning out on a prairie highway, when darkness lifts and reveals the outline of farmhouses and copses of trees in the distance.

  

  David Bergen
  • Feeling
  • Morning
  • Distance

• I would love to tell you I've found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can't count all your ribs from a distance you're considered obese.

  

  Jason Isaacs
  • Work
  • Hate
  • Distance

• Path presupposes distance; If He be near, no path needest thou at all. Verily it maketh me smile To hear of a fish in water athirst!

  

  Kabir
  • Water
  • Path
  • Smile

• I tell you, my friends,’ he said one day. ‘I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. It’s the others that are mad, but they don’t know it. They fight a war and they don’t know what for. Isn’t that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And it’s me they call mad!

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Men
  • Different
  • War

• Women are the harshest critics of other women.

  

  Joy Bryant
  • Women
  • Critics
  • Other

• There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn't speak their language. For me, I believe that hearing or deaf is fine as long as both parties are willing to communicate in each other's language. But if there's no communication, then the marriage, I believe, will be difficult if not doomed.

  

  Marlee Matlin
  • People
  • Believe
  • Long

• Oh, if only I were perfectly moon blinked hypnotized. If only I were...

  

  Kathryn Lasky
  • Moon

• Estrangement and belonging, an effect of distance and closeness at the same time.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Distance
  • Closeness
  • Estrangement