13+ Marlena De Blasi Quotes On

Marlena De Blasi is an American author and journalist. She is best known for her travel memoirs and novels, which often focus on her experiences in Italy. Her books include A Thousand Days in Venice, A Thousand Days in Tuscany, and The Lady in the Palazzo. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Marlena De Blasi on love, life.

Take my hand and grow young with me. Don't rush. Don't sleep. Be a beginner. Light the candles. Keep the fire. Dare to love someone. Tell yourself the truth. Stay inside the rapture. — Marlena De Blasi

We accumulate pain, collect it. ... We display it, stack it up into a pile, then we stack it up into a mountain, so we can climb up onto it, waiting for or demanding sympathy: "Hey, do you see how big my pain is?" — Marlena De Blasi

Gauntlets are the stuff of every life, but when you learn young how to pick them up, how to work them against the demons, and finally how to outlast if not escape those same demons, life can seem more merciful. It's that long, smooth, false swanning through life that seems to drive a person, sooner or later, into the wall. — Marlena De Blasi

Much of my crying is for joy and wonder rather than for pain. A trumpet's wailing, a wind's warm breath, the chink of a bell on an errant lamb, the smoke from a candle just spent, first light, twilight, firelight. Everyday beauty. I cry for how life intoxicates. And maybe just a little for how swiftly it runs. — Marlena De Blasi

Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it. — Marlena De Blasi

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up. — Marlena De Blasi

We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still. — Marlena De Blasi

Living as a couple never means that each gets half. You must take turns at giving more than getting. It’s not the same as a bow to the other whether to dine out rather than in, or which one gets massaged that evening with oil of calendula; there are seasons in the life of a couple that function, I think, a little like a night watch. One stands guard, often for a long time, providing the serenity in which the other can work at something. Usually that something is sinewy and full of spines. One goes inside the dark place while the other one stays outside, holding up the moon. — Marlena De Blasi

Our babies cried when we left them and we cry when they leave us. Echoes. Proud almost to arrogance then, we pushed them about in their carriages. Dutifully, wearily now they push us about in our chairs. — Marlena De Blasi

We're all who we are endlessly. — Marlena De Blasi

There isn't an agony in the world more powerful than tenderness — Marlena De Blasi

most crimes are connected to hunger. One hunger or another. — Marlena De Blasi

How strange it is, sometimes, which conversations or events stays with us while so much else melts as fast as April snow. — Marlena De Blasi

Life Lessons by Marlena De Blasi

1. Marlena De Blasi's work emphasizes the importance of living life to its fullest and embracing the beauty of the unknown.
2. She encourages readers to be brave and take risks, as well as to appreciate the small moments and the people in our lives.
3. Her stories demonstrate the power of resilience and the beauty of embracing the unexpected.