Best 62 quotes of Luigina Sgarro on MyQuotes

All'inizio le ali pesano più delle catene, perché con le catene non ci era richiesto di sollevarci in volo.

Almost no one reads poems, almost everyone listens to songs. And if songs were, nowadays, a way to get people to poetry and poetry to people?

Autumn is an interesting season, even in the metaphor of life, is a time of decline, of loss, but also intense and haunting beauty. Some places, like some people, never are, or have been, as beautiful in their fall.

Beauty is not perfection, it is what makes us understand the uselessness of perfection.

Cynophilist: paradoxical being that often despises man and adores the dog, apparently, mainly because of the unconditional love that the latter has for the first.

Dignity and pride are not only two different feelings, but, in some ways, opposites. You can step on your pride to preserve your dignity. You can destroy your dignity because of your pride.

Freedom is also to understand that what the world thinks of us is less important for our well-being than what we think of the world.

Great men when they get power become even greater. Little men whent they get power become even smaller. Unfortunately little men tend to aspire to power more than great ones.

I believe in love and I believe that a healthy love stems from love for oneself, so it is never desperate, even in the worst event, in which the other leaves us sorry to die in the fullness of love, a true feeling turns that into energy to go forward with joy and even more strength than before. True love leaves no room for despair, true love is beyond hope.

I don't think I would like to be immortal, not out of boredom about life but out of curiosity about death.

If we could imagine, while we live them, to what mundane moments nostalgia manages to stick itself...

If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepared for the unexpected.

If we were honest with ourselves we would know that what we fear is not to hurt others for fear of their suffering but for fear of the suffering that we ourselves would feel for this evil.

If you don't want to do without a person is not the same thing of wanting to be with that person. Maybe it's one of the differences between addiction and love.

I grandi uomini col potere diventano ancora più grandi. I piccoli uomini col potere diventano ancora più piccoli. Sfortunatamente, i piccoli uomini tendono a desiderare il potere più dei grandi uomini

I like snorkeling, it's the only thing I'm able to do that makes me think I can fly.

I'm glad I do not have a rebellious nature, so I am not forced to do things just because others do not want.

In hate feeling there is a more or less subtle estimation component. You do not hate those who take advantage or prevails over someone who is incapable or weak (albeit temporarily), you can at most despise them.

In long-standing relationships, sometimes, it's not that the other person become marginal, rather you tend to consider your partner a part of yourself and, as for your arm, even if you never say how important it is to you, it would be terrible if it wasn't there.

Insomnia can be a gift. More time for reading, writing and walking. More time to live.

I prefer to die fighting than living defeated

I think there is a substantial difference between hypocrisy and diplomacy: hypocrisy is not saying things, diplomacy is knowing how to say things.

I thought that childhood went away softly, or that it was lost with a rip, at the moment when the veil is torn and you see another reality. Instead it is neither one nor the other. Childhood goes away in shreds, like a mosaic that flakes under your eyes. Below, in fragments, appears the adult being in its darkest part, from which we protect ourselves, like children who puts the blanket upon their faces, for fear of the ogre, there are the things you do not want to see, until when you can no longer deny them. And perhaps this denial is a part of wanting to believe in a life after death, the last piece of childhood that some of us guard, for thinking that every goodbye, after all, is not forever.

It may happen that we miss people that we took care of more than we miss those who took care of us, because the desire to love and the search for meaning, together, are stronger than the desire to be loved.

Many do not see that not to have dreams is far worse than seeing that their dreams do not come true.

Many of the most charming women I know possess at least on cat or dog. Maybe after getting used to an affectionate quadruped it is hard to settle for a man.

Only when you read the adjective "professional" on the wrapping of a roll of toilet paper do you understand how profound the economic crisis in the country is.

Our childhood dies little by little, and its agony is the history of our lives.

Our ability to forgive depends more on how much we love than on how much we are loved.

Our age: more "communication experts" that important things to say.

People aren't things., we cannot lose them nor someone can take them away from us. They choose to leave.

Perhaps, in the end, only those who really made us laugh can really make us cry.

Reading a great novel gives the same feeling you have when you fall in love.

Relationships are tested by distance, love is put to the test by closeness.

Se due persone non riescono a essere felici insieme e non riescono a esserlo lasciandoci, è possibile che, semplicemente, non siano capaci di essere felici.

Siamo vulnerabili, non fragili, ma il nostro desiderio di attraversare la vita senza provare dolore ci fa sentire fragili.

Someone can accept an impossible challenge because deep within they believe it possible. Possible and impossible can be assessed differently by a woman and a man. My possible may seem impossible to you, my limit may be your challenge. And vice-versa.

Some people I know should walk around with written warnings on, like the ones you find on cigarette packages.

Some revolutions resemble restorations, at least at first glance.

Sometimes to reassure you, you do not have to deceive yourself in thinking to have certainties, just understand that you do not need them.

Sometimes we are more attached to the pain than the pain is attached to us.

The advantage when you have never really been young is that you cannot really get old.

The cruellest thing about love is that it leads us to deal with the parts of ourselves that we do not want to see, and, sometimes, this is what we do not really forgive the other.

The highest indifference is when indeed you ignore you are ignoring someone.

The most cruel thing about love is that it leads us to come to terms with the parts of ourselves that we do not want to see, and this is what we do not actually forgive the other.

There are things done so badly that one is tempted to think that there is an intention behind.

There is nothing like having something important to do that we do not want to do to get us to deal with those little trivial things we've been postponing for a long time.

The things we do not do say about us as much as the things we do, if not more.

They use fear to control us, they control us to make us afraid. One more reason to be brave.

Unfortunately, love is more often an alibi than a reason.