Elena Ferrante Quotes

Today I feel some uneasiness in recalling how much I suffered, I have no sympathy for myself of that time.

Elena Ferrante

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• I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Life
  • Technology
  • Myself

• It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Fun
  • More
  • Conclusion

• We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Time
  • Good
  • Freedom

• We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Moral

• And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.

  

  Hans Kung
  • People
  • God
  • Community

• I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Live
  • Man
  • Proud

• If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Guy
  • Free

• People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!

  

  Zola Jesus
  • People
  • Dark
  • Understand

• Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Me
  • Thought
  • Never Forget

• 'We choose our lovers for their flaws, you know,' Mel said. 'People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.'

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • People
  • Good
  • Bored

• Music starts playing like the end of a sad movie.It's the kind of ending you don't really wanna see.'Cause it's tragedy and it'll only bring you down.Now I don't know what to be without you around.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Sad

• Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.

  

  Karl Marx

• Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Society
  • Alone
  • Universe

• Sleep is so important. I think more important than we know. When I haven't slept, I'm not myself. I'm not as easy-going.

  

  Elsa Hosk
  • Important
  • Sleep

• If you don't speak out now when it matters, when would it matter for you to speak out?

  

  Jim Hightower

• The ethos of 50 years ago was that there was one kind of English that was right and everything else was wrong; one kind of access that was right and everything else was inferior. Then nobody touched language for two generations. When it gradually came back in, we didn't want to go back to what we did in the 1950s. There's a new kind of ethos now.

  

  David Crystal
  • English

• The things that I've enjoyed most are not really science fiction. They are not much fun to make because there are so many toys involved. They are fun for directors who like toys, like Ridley Scott, but they are not a lot of fun to make. A lot of hanging around, changing this and that.

  

  John Hurt
  • Fun
  • Science

• Positive energy knows no boundaries. If everyone were to spread positive energy on the Internet, the world would be a much better place.

  

  Lu Wei
  • World
  • Energy
  • Positive

• Surrealism was a genuine addition to the repertoire of avant-garde arts, its novelty attested by the ability to produce shock, incomprehension, or what amounted to the same thing, a sometimes, embarrassed laughter, even among the older avant-garde.

  

  Eric Hobsbawm
  • Laughter

• We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Idea
  • Act
  • Afford

• Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Peace
  • Forgiveness
  • Painful

• I'm not looking for sympathy, just understanding.

  

  Jacoby Shaddix Papa Roach
  • Understanding
  • Sympathy

• Today I feel some uneasiness in recalling how much I suffered, I have no sympathy for myself of that time.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Sympathy
  • Suffered
  • Recalling