Alessandro Baricco famous quotes

03-30-2025

This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. Itâ€™s a place that does not exist.
-- Alessandro Baricco

#Land #Sea #Doe
Say the sea. Say the sea. Say the sea. So that perhaps a drop of that magic may wander through time, and something might find it, and save it before it disappears forever. Say the sea. Because it's what we have left. Because faced by the sea, we without crosses, without magic, we must still have a weapon, something, so as not to die in silence, that's all.
-- Alessandro Baricco

#Sea #Forever #Silence
Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say
-- Alessandro Baricco

#Sides #Sometimes #Sometimes In Life
The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence with the cyclical explosion of nocturnal waves, distant memories of sleepwalking storms and the shipwrecks of dream.
-- Alessandro Baricco

#Dream #Memories #Sea
To die of yearning for something you will never experience
-- Alessandro Baricco

#Yearning
You were dead.' She said. 'And in the whole world there was nothing beautiful left.
-- Alessandro Baricco

#Beautiful #World #Said
... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.
-- Alessandro Baricco

#Rainy Day #Destiny #Men
As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.
-- Alessandro Baricco

#Fashion #Destiny #Eight
Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.
-- Alessandro Baricco

#Destiny #Arrows #Want
Reasons get forgotten.
-- Alessandro Baricco

#Forgotten #Reason
I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.
-- Alessandro Baricco

#Loneliness #Love You #Boredom
Itâ€™s a strange griefâ€¦to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.
-- Alessandro Baricco

#Grief #Strange #Nostalgia
We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.
-- Alessandro Baricco

#Mean #Suffering #Use
There is nothing that can, in the dark become true
-- Alessandro Baricco

#Dark
She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind
-- Alessandro Baricco

#Soul #Feelings #Mind
Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.
-- Alessandro Baricco

#Children #Men #World
As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.
-- Alessandro Baricco

#Mind #Answers #Want
Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.
-- Alessandro Baricco

#Mind #Lasts #Resolution

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