"Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our…" — Ugo Betti
"Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead."
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34 Quotes by Ugo Betti
Ugo Betti has 34 quotes on this site.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
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This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
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We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain…
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Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.
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If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
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When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace,…
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Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words,…
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We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there…
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Killing time is the chief end of our society.
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There is no forgiveness in nature.
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More Burial Quotes
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
— Seneca the Younger
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Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them…
— Roderick Murchison
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Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
— Seneca the Younger
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On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist…
— Barack Obama
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Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use…
— Unknown Author
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... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue…
— Albert Einstein
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Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion…
— William Shakespeare
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As president, Clinton sold burial plots in Arlington Cemetery and liberals shrugged it off. What really gets their goat is…
— Ann Coulter
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Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext…
— Jean Anouilh
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when…
— Edward Abbey
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"Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free…
— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
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There is nothing so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
— Alfred Hitchcock
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