Джакомо Леопарди цитаты
Джакомо Леопарди
Дата рождения: 29. Июнь 1798
Дата смерти: 14. Июнь 1837
Другие имена: Giacomo Graf Leopardi
Джакомо Леопарди — итальянский романтический поэт, мыслитель-моралист, филолог.
Цитаты Джакомо Леопарди
„Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.“
— Giacomo Leopardi, книга Zibaldone
Источник: Zibaldone di pensieri
„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)
„To that creature, being born,
Its birthday is a day to mourn.“
— Giacomo Leopardi, книга Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia
Stato che sia, dentro covile o cuna,
È funesto a chi nasce il dì natale.
Canto notturno di un pastore errante dell'Asia (Night song of a nomadic shepherd in Asia) (1829-1830). Translation by Eamon Grennan, Leopardi: Selected Poems [Princeton University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-691-01644-5], p. 62
Poetry
„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)
„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)
„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)
„It seems as though death were the essential aim of all things. That which has no existence cannot die; yet all that exists has proceeded from nothing. The final cause of existence is not happiness, for nothing is happy. It is true, living creatures seek this end in all their works, but none obtain it; and during all their life, ever deceiving, tormenting, and exerting themselves, they suffer indeed for no other purpose than to die.“
Essays and Dialogues (1882), The Song of the Wild Cock
„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.“
Essays and Dialogues (1882), Dialogue between Nature and an Icelander
„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?“
Essays and Dialogues (1882), Dialogue between Nature and an Icelander
