All Natalia Ginzburg Quotes
- Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness. Day
- As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift… Caution
- As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and we… Betrayed
- No adultery is bloodless. Adultery
- You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials Ill
- When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a… Along
- The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are shattered,… Ancient
- We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us. Adolescence
- Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody. Disaster