Empty Quote by Giacomo Leopardi Download Open image “The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.” — Giacomo Leopardi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Empty Illusion Life Life is Pleasure This life
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality. — Ian Gardner Copy Share Image
Pleasure is built on self-seeking,but joy is based on self-sacrifice.and the more we pursue self-gratification,the more empty we feel. — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“ 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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a… — Al Smith Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“Joe!” he groaned, attempting to speak clearly. “Joe! Good ol’ Joe!” “Captain, you’re drunk!” Lofflin said, stating the obvious while trying to keep his… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
Why chase after thoughts, which are superficial ripples of present awareness? Rather look directly into the naked, empty nature of thoughts; then there is… — Jamgon Kongtrul Copy Share Image
Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation — Shiv Khera Copy Share Image
He that humbles himself shall be preserved entire. He that bends shall be made straight. He that is empty shall be filled. He that… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space. — Anagarika Govinda Copy Share Image
Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
