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

• Life
• Desire
• Laughing
• Attack

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• Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• 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

• I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Enjoy

• 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

• I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Life
  • Women

• Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Love

• Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Life
  • Good
  • War

• I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Style

• I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage... funny how life works out like that.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • World
  • Story

• I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• I don't consider 'American Rose' to be a biography so much as a microcosm of 20th-century America, told through Gypsy's tumultuous life - it's 'Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.'

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Life
  • American
  • America

• In every living thing there is the desire for love.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Desire
  • For Her

• There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Life
  • Sea

• As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn't be admissible.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Know
  • Alive
  • Optimistic

• Bland is the truest expression of an advanced civilization. It took a great deal of money to create this pocket of cool, calm bland among the rickshaw men and the beggar children tapping on the car windows.

  

  John Twelve Hawks
  • Great
  • Men
  • Children

• I like Jaco Pastorius' 'Portrait of Tracy.' He was this bass player who played jazz fusion. He was the dopest bass player who ever lived.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • Player

• The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

  

  Demosthenes

• My father always said that Brazil is the place to 'make America,' and by 'make America' he meant the place to grow - to prosper.

  

  Michel Temer
  • Father
  • Always
  • Place

• 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
  • Life
  • Desire
  • Laughing