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

• He said there is 80 of us, ready to come down and the next thing I knew is that Jo Brown dashed in and said your family has already moved and you have to move, the boat is ready to take you out. I didn't have time to ask, even ask a question.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Time
  • Family
  • Question

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

  

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

• Of the 16 years that I have been living in Germany, I have given myself entirely to the German art world. How am I now suddenly supposed to feel myself a foreigner?

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • World
  • Art
  • German

• '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

• The important thing is to end a conflict that has brought burdens to both our peoples, and above all to the people of South Viet-Nam. If you have any thoughts about the actions I propose , it would be most important that I receive them as soon as possible.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • People
  • Important
  • Thoughts

• 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

• A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Book
  • Tree
  • Pool

• In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Black
  • Band
  • Chicago

• 'The Haunted Man' is about communication barriers between men and women, and in that song it's a woman's wait for her husband to come back from war. The vision for me was of a group of men and women on the opposite sides of two cliffs, trying to move or sing to each other and communicate, but they're kind of misfiring.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

  

  Edwin Morgan
  • People
  • Good
  • Poetry

• 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