Death Quote by Giacomo Leopardi

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

— Giacomo Leopardi

If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.

— Giacomo Leopardi

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

— Giacomo Leopardi

“Everything that is ended, everything that is last, naturally awakens in man a feeling of sorrow and melancholy. At the same time, it excites…

— Giacomo Leopardi

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

— Giacomo Leopardi

If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most…

— Giacomo Leopardi

“ The Infinite It was always dear to me, this solitary hill, and this hedgerow here, that closes out my view, from so much…

— Giacomo Leopardi

The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way…

— Giacomo Leopardi

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

— Giacomo Leopardi

The artisan or scientist or the follower of whatever discipline who has the habit of comparing himself not with other followers but with the…

— Giacomo Leopardi

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign…

— Giacomo Leopardi

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it…

— Giacomo Leopardi