---
title: "2 Father Just Quotes By Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa"
description: "2 Father Just quotes by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Plus more from Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and more Father Just sayings from other authors."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/473/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa-2_human-beings_we-re-not-blind-in-spirit-father-we-re-j_587733.jpg"
---

> [“We’re not blind in spirit, Father. We’re just human beings in a changing world”. Il gattopardo”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/we-re-not-blind-in-spirit-father-we-re-just-human-beings-in-a/)

[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/473/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa-2_human-beings_we-re-not-blind-in-spirit-father-we-re-j_587733.jpg)

> [“We’re not blind in spirit, Father. We’re just human beings in a changing world”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/we-re-not-blind-in-spirit-father-we-re-just-human-beings-in-a-2/)

[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b7/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa-2_father_we-re-not-blind-in-spirit-father-we-re-j_2941453.jpg)

## More by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

> [“Noi fummo i Gattopardi, i Leoni; quelli che ci sostituiranno saranno gli sciacalletti, le iene; e tutti quanti gattopardi, sciacalli e pecore, continueremo a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/noi-fummo-i-gattopardi-i-leoni-quelli-che-ci-sostituiranno-saranno/)

[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/)

> [Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/love-of-course-love-flames-for-a-year-ashes-for-thirty/)

[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/)

> [Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/nowhere-has-truth-such-a-short-life-as-in-sicily-a-fact-has-scarcely/)

[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/)

> [“We’re not blind in spirit, Father. We’re just human beings in a changing world”. Il gattopardo”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/we-re-not-blind-in-spirit-father-we-re-just-human-beings-in-a/)

[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/)

> [“Don Fabrizio remembered a conversation with Father Pirrone some months before in the sunlit observatory. What the Jesuit had predicted had come to pass.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/don-fabrizio-remembered-a-conversation-with-father-pirrone-some/)

[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/)

> [“Si queremos que todo siga como está, es preciso que todo cambie”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/si-queremos-que-todo-siga-como-est-es-preciso-que-todo-cambie/)

[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/)

> [To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/to-rage-and-mock-is-gentlemanly-to-grumble-and-whine-is-not/)

[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/)

> [“All Sicilian expression, even the most violent, is really wish fulfillment: our sensuality is a hankering for oblivion, our shooting and knifing a hankering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/all-sicilian-expression-even-the-most-violent-is-really-wish/)

[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/)

> [If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/if-we-want-everything-to-remain-as-it-is-it-will-be-necessary-for/)

[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/)

> [“That solar hue, that variegation of gleam and shade, made Don Fabrizio's heart ache as he stood black and stiff in a doorway: this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/that-solar-hue-that-variegation-of-gleam-and-shade-made-don-fabrizio/)

[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/)

> [“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/for-over-twenty-five-centuries-we-ve-been-bearing-the-weight-of/)

[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/)

> [“E poi quando si è con Tancredi ci si può forse irritare qualche volta, ma non ci si annoia mai; e questo è molto.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/e-poi-quando-si-con-tancredi-ci-si-pu-forse-irritare-qualche-volta-ma/)

[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/)

> [“...waking at very early dawn amid all that sweat and stink, he had found himself comparing this ghastly journey with his own life, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/waking-at-very-early-dawn-amid-all-that-sweat-and-stink-he-had-found/)

[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/)

> [If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/if-we-want-things-to-stay-as-they-are-things-will-have-to-change/)

[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/)

> [There is no need to tell you that the 'Prince of Salina' is the Prince Lampedusa, my great-grandfather Giulio Fabrizio.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/there-is-no-need-to-tell-you-that-the-prince-of-salina-is-the-prince/)

[Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/father-just/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/#itemlist",
            "name": "2 Father Just Quotes By Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa",
            "numberOfItems": 2,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“We’re not blind in spirit, Father. We’re just human beings in a changing world”. Il gattopardo”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/we-re-not-blind-in-spirit-father-we-re-just-human-beings-in-a/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/473/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa-2_human-beings_we-re-not-blind-in-spirit-father-we-re-j_587733.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/473/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa-2_human-beings_we-re-not-blind-in-spirit-father-we-re-j_587733.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/473/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa-2_human-beings_we-re-not-blind-in-spirit-father-we-re-j_587733.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“We’re not blind in spirit, Father. We’re just human beings in a changing world”. Il gattopardo” — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“We’re not blind in spirit, Father. We’re just human beings in a changing world”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/we-re-not-blind-in-spirit-father-we-re-just-human-beings-in-a-2/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b7/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa-2_father_we-re-not-blind-in-spirit-father-we-re-j_2941453.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b7/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa-2_father_we-re-not-blind-in-spirit-father-we-re-j_2941453.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b7/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa-2_father_we-re-not-blind-in-spirit-father-we-re-j_2941453.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“We’re not blind in spirit, Father. We’re just human beings in a changing world” — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/father-just/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/father-just/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/",
            "name": "Father Just Quotes by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/father-just/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/473/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa-2_human-beings_we-re-not-blind-in-spirit-father-we-re-j_587733.jpg"
            },
            "description": "2 Father Just quotes by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Plus more from Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and more Father Just sayings from other authors.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/father-just/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/father-just/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Father Just",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/father-just/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/father-just/giuseppe-tomasi-di-lampedusa/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```