Джакомо Леопарди цитаты

„У кого нет цели, тот не находит радости ни в каком занятии.“

—  Джакомо Леопарди

„Каждый несчастлив ровно на столько, насколько он сам считает себя несчастным.“

—  Джакомо Леопарди

„Нерешительные люди бывают особенно упорны в исполнении своих намерений, и таковы они по причине самой своей нерешительности: ведь отказавшись от того, что они уже рассудили сделать, они должны будут ещё раз принять решение.“

—  Джакомо Леопарди

„Несчастья не так губительны для счастья, как тоска.“

—  Джакомо Леопарди

„Тоска — самое бесплодное из всех человеческих переживаний.“

—  Джакомо Леопарди

„The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.“

—  Giacomo Leopardi

„Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.“

—  Giacomo Leopardi

„Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.“

—  Giacomo Leopardi, книга Zibaldone

Источник: Zibaldone di pensieri

„What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.“

—  Giacomo Leopardi

„Freedom is the dream you dream
While putting thought in chains again“

—  Giacomo Leopardi, Canti

Источник: Canti

„My philosophy isn’t only not conducive to misanthropy, as it might appear to a superficial reader, and as many have accused me. It essentially rules out misanthropy, it tends toward healing, to dissolving discontent and hatred. Not knee-jerk hatred but the deep-dyed hatred that unreflective people who would deny being misanthropes so cordially bear (habitually or on select occasions) toward their own kind in response to hurts they receive—as we all do, justly or not—from others. My philosophy holds nature guilty of everything, it acquits mankind completely and directs our hate, or at least our lamentations, to its matrix, to the true origin of the afflictions living creatures suffer, etc.“

—  Giacomo Leopardi, книга Zibaldone

2nd January, 1829. Translation by W. S. Di Piero.
Zibaldone (1898)

„ICELANDER: So say all the philosophers. But since that which is destroyed suffers, and that which is born from its destruction also suffers in due course, and finally is in its turn destroyed, would you enlighten me on one point, about which hitherto no philosopher has satisfied me? For whose pleasure and service is this wretched life of the world maintained, by the suffering and death of all the beings which compose it?“

—  Giacomo Leopardi

Essays and Dialogues (1882), Dialogue between Nature and an Icelander

„ICELANDER: Thus I reply to you. I am well aware you did not make the world for the service of men. It were easier to believe that you made it expressly as a place of torment for them. But tell me: why am I here at all? Did I ask to come into the world? Or am I here unnaturally, contrary to your will? If however, you yourself have placed me here, without giving me the power of acceptance or refusal of this gift of life, ought you not as far as possible to try and make me happy, or at least preserve me from the evils and dangers, which render my sojourn a painful one? And what I say of myself, I say of the whole human race, and of every living creature.“

—  Giacomo Leopardi

Essays and Dialogues (1882), Dialogue between Nature and an Icelander

„Pleasure is always in the past or in the future, never in the present.“

—  Giacomo Leopardi, книга Zibaldone

Il piacere è sempre o passato o futuro, non mai presente.
29th September 1823, Festival of Saint Michael the Archangel.
Zibaldone (1898)

„Two truths that most men will never believe: one that we know nothing, the other that we are nothing. Add the third, which depends a lot on the second: that there is nothing to hope for after death.“

—  Giacomo Leopardi, книга Zibaldone

1832. Passions. Translation by Tim Parks. [Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 9780300186338], p. 8
Zibaldone (1898)

„No one can truthfully boast or say in anger: I cannot be unhappier than I am.“

—  Giacomo Leopardi, книга Zibaldone

13-14th August 1821.
Zibaldone (1898)

„Everything is evil. I mean, everything that is, is wicked; every existing thing is an evil; everything exists for a wicked end. Existence is a wickedness and is ordained for wickedness. Evil is the end, the final purpose, of the universe…The only good is nonbeing; the only really good thing is the thing that is not, things that are not things; all things are bad.“

—  Giacomo Leopardi, книга Zibaldone

19th April 1826.
Zibaldone (1898)

„Whilst they discussed these and similar questions, two lions are said to have suddenly appeared. The beasts were so enfeebled and emaciated with hunger that they were scarcely able to devour the Icelander. They accomplished the feat however, and thus gained sufficient strength to live to the end of the day.“

—  Giacomo Leopardi

Essays and Dialogues (1882), Dialogue between Nature and an Icelander

„NATURE: So flees the squirrel from the rattlesnake, and runs in its haste deliberately into the mouth of its tormentor. I am that from which thou fleest.“

—  Giacomo Leopardi

Essays and Dialogues (1882), Dialogue between Nature and an Icelander