8+ Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa quotes and sayings.

As always the thought of his own death calmed him as much as that of others disturbed him: was it perhaps because, when all was said and done, his own death would in the first place mean that of the whole world? — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not. — 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 camouflaged, embellished, disfigured, squashed, annihilated by imagination and self interest; shame, fear, generosity, malice, opportunism, charity, all the passions, good as well as evil, fling themselves onto the fact and tear it to pieces; very soon it has vanished altogether. — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

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

A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in. — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but worse. We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth. — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change. — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa