Next Room Quotes by Italo Calvino

More Next Room Quotes

Popular Next Room quotes from across the collection:

• Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,… — Chinua Achebe
• If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
• The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must… — J. B. Priestley
• I have only slipped away into the next room, I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other,… — Henry Scott Holland
• Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. — Henry Scott Holland
• Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room. — Joanna Lumley
• A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke — Max Eastman
• The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly… — George Steiner
• Sitting down and weeping is what women have done for centuries, and it has done no good at all. Nor praying. God… — Sheri S. Tepper
• I told him about the way they get to know you. Not the way people do, the way they flatter you by… — Amy Hempel
• It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy… — Ben Marcus
• Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they've been going at it all night long. — Paul Simon

See all Next Room Quotes »