Giacomo Leopardi Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Evil, Leaving, Suffering

  Giacomo Leopardi (2002). “Thoughts: And, The Broom [or The Flower of the Desert]”, Hesperus Press

• Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Men, Childhood, Age

• Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Men, Age, Vivid

  Giacomo Leopardi (1987). “Leopardi: Poems and Prose”, Praeger Pub Text

• 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

  Men, Evil, Sorrow

• I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Age, Mouths, May

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