Amor Quote 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…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.

— 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…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“We’re not blind in spirit, Father. We’re just human beings in a changing world”. Il gattopardo”

— 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.…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“Si queremos que todo siga como está, es preciso que todo cambie”

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not.

— 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…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa