Best 15 quotes of Italo Svevo on MyQuotes

And it is true that life lacks the monotony of museums. There come days which seem worthy of being framed, but they are so full of conflicting sounds, of line and color and living, burning light that they never become tedious.

A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.

Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.

It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.

Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility.

Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.

Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.

The fancies of wine are authentic events.

The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .

There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.

To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.

Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.

Forse traverso una catastrofe inaudita prodotta dagli ordigni ritorneremo alla salute. Quando i gas velenosi non basteranno più, un uomo fatto come tutti gli altri, nel segreto di una stanza di questo mondo, inventerà un esplosivo incomparabile, in confronto al quale gli esplosivi attualmente esistenti saranno considerati quali innocui giocattoli. Ed un altro uomo fatto anche lui come tutti gli altri, ma degli altri un po’ più ammalato, ruberà tale esplosivo e s’arrampicherà al centro della terra per porlo nel punto ove il suo effetto potrà essere il massimo. Ci sarà un’esplosione enorme che nessuno udrà e la terra ritornata alla forma di nebulosa errerà nei cieli priva di parassiti e di malattie. [La coscienza di Zeno, 1923]