Elena Ferrante Quotes

Individuals and cities without love are a danger to themselves and to others.

Elena Ferrante

• Danger
• Cities
• Individuals

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Still
  • Medium
  • Pen

• I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Earth
  • City
  • Easy

• Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • People
  • World
  • Famous

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Thought

• If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • History
  • Moving
  • Challenge

• A 501(c)3 can't lobby. A 501(c)3 can't invest in a company or build an industry. It may be that the only way to deal with climate change is to create an industry or build companies.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • May
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Night
  • Know
  • Mystery

• I found them uncomfortable and after that I decided to continue running barefoot because I found it more comfortable. I felt more in touch with what was happening - I could actually feel the track.

  

  Zola Budd
  • Running
  • Comfortable
  • Uncomfortable

• When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.

  

  Andre Rieu
  • Long
  • Home
  • Garden

• Tell me he’s not talking to Brandon,” Claire said. “Um… Ok. He’s not talking to Brandon.” “You’re lying.” “Yeah. He’s talking to Brandon. Look, let Shane do his thing, okay? He’s not as stupid as he looks, mostly.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Stupid
  • Conversation
  • Brandon

• I feel for food more than I could crave a woman. And that's the truth!

  

  Kai Greene
  • Truth
  • Food
  • Feels

• Pictures all around, of how good a life should be, a model for the rest, that bred insecurity, I walked a jagged line and then came back for more, it's always in my mind, an institution with no law.

  

  Ian Curtis Joy Division
  • Life
  • Good
  • Mind

• Most people engage in activities that are tension-relieving rather than goal-achieving.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Goal
  • Achieve

• Every photograph is a fake from start to finish.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Fake
  • Photograph
  • Finish

• Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Group
  • Slaves
  • Statesman

• I like Madonna a lot. I think she's really good and I think she's a good singer. I think she looks good and she's got a nice kind of... I don't think she's got a sinister or cynical vibe around her, and I don't think she's got any sort of bullshit around her.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Good
  • She
  • Nice

• In terms of wilderness preservation, Alaska is the last frontier. This time, given one great final chance, let us strive to do it right. Not in our generation, nor ever again, will we have a land and wildlife opportunity approaching the scope and importance of this one.

  

  Mo Udall
  • Nature
  • Opportunity
  • Chance

• The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability of the eye and by the borrowed light from the intense projector bulb, he can achieve those relationships in brightness that will make us dutifully admire the wonderful autumn tints he photographed on his latest trip. As soon as we look at a print of these photographs by day, the light seems to go out of them. It is one of the miracles of art that the same does not happen there.

  

  Ernst Gombrich
  • Achieve
  • Relationships
  • Screen

• Individuals and cities without love are a danger to themselves and to others.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Danger
  • Cities
  • Individuals