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Giacomo Leopardi Quotes

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

Giacomo Leopardi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: italian
Birth: June 29, 1798 - June 14, 1837

Topics

Fear Age Men Death Old Age Man

I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.

John Ratzenberger

School Thought Acting Never Get Far

I'm a boots girl. I always wear boots. They only look better when they get dirty.

Sky Ferreira

Girl Better Boots Look Dirty Always

When I was a girl, my grandmother would take me during the holidays to see the windows at Saks and Rockefeller Center.

Michael Learned

Girl Me Holidays Windows Grandmother

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

Miranda Otto

Time People Door Pressure Famous

One of my favorite ways to write paranormal, as in the 'Wake' trilogy, is to write very normal characters with just a hint of something other-worldly. Like somewhere, maybe, someone really can get sucked into other people's dreams.

Lisa McMann

Dreams People Someone Write Normal

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

Jon Ronson

Childhood You Tyranny Sometimes Only

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

Domhnall Gleeson

Father Myself Me Way Younger

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

Donald Judd

Art Think Morality Now Kind Denial

It's important when you're married not to forget those things you used to do when you were trying to get her to marry you. You can't send flowers and buy gifts then, when you're married, say, 'Right, get my tea on'. That doesn't go down well. So you've got to keep that level of interest going.

David Walliams

Tea Flowers Trying You Down Forget

I felt like a sinful person when I dated men and allowed them to feel for me in a way I knew I could never naturally feel for them. That felt wrong and a lie.

Chely Wright

Men Lie Me Feel Wrong Person

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.

Christine Baranski

Character Better Getting Better Mine

As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.

Brian Williams

Silence Wrong Position Israel Well