Elena Ferrante Quotes

I didn't hear what he said, but I felt like laughing at his artificial imperiousness. The laugh took away every desire to attack, drained me... React. I began to tidy up. When I had finished I began again, a kind of roundup of everything that didn't appear to be in order. Lucidity, determination, hold on to life.

Elena Ferrante

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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

Laura Marling
- Life
- Country
- Book
Ignorance of the facts of life gave me my beloved son, Dickon, but at what cost to both him and me, I cannot hazard a guess.

Kate O'Mara
- Life
- Son
- Ignorance
It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Queen Christina
- Life
- Long
- Self
I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

Cara Delevingne
- Life
- Live
- School
To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.

Ralph Boston
- Life
- Different
- Remember
Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

Ed Sheeran
- People
- Life
- Cool