Giacomo Nerone Quotes

Each of us can walk only the path he sees at his own feet. Each of us is subject to the consequences of his own belief. ~ Morris L. West

Even in sin, the act of love -done with love- is shadowed with divinity. Its conformity may be at fault, but its nature is not altered, and its nature is creative, communicative, splendid in surrender. It was in the splendor of my surrender to Nina and she to me, that I first understood how a man might surrender himself to God -if a God existed. The moment of love is a moment of union -of body and spirit- and the act of faith is mutual and implicit. ~ Morris L. West

I was lost a long time, without knowing it. Without the Faith, one is free, and that is a pleasant feeling at first. There are no questions of conscience, no constraints, except the constraints of custom, convention and the law, and these are flexible enough for most purposes. It is only later that terror comes. One is free - but free in chaos, in an unexplained and unexplainable world. One is free in a desert, from which there is no retreat but inward, toward the hollow core of oneself. There is nothing to build on but the small rock of one's own pride, and this is a nothing, based on nothing ... I think, therefore I am. But what am I? An accident of disorder, going no place. ~ Morris L. West

We are ants on the carcass of the world, spawned out of nothing, going busily nowhere. One of us dies, the others crawl over us to the pickings. ~ Morris L. West

I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old. ~ Laura San Giacomo

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died. ~ Giacomo Meyerbeer

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years. ~ Giacomo Leopardi

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude. ~ Giacomo Casanova

See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping! ~ Giacomo Puccini

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel. ~ Giacomo Casanova

Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me,I would love him alone and forever ~ Giacomo Casanova

No one thing shows the greatness and power of the human intellect or the loftiness and nobility of man more than his ability to know and to understand fully and feel strongly his own smallness. When, in considering the multiplicity of worlds, he feels himself to be an infinitesimal part of a globe which itself is a negligible part of one of the infinite number of systems that go to make up the world, and in considering this is astonished by his own smallness, and in feeling it deeply and regarding it intently, virtually blends into nothing, and it is as if he loses himself in the immensity of things, and finds himself as though lost in the incomprehensible vastness of existence, with this single act of thought he gives the greatest possible proof of the nobility and immense capability of his own mind, which, enclosed in such a small and negligible being, has nonetheless managed to know and understand things so superior to his own nature, and to embrace and contain this same intensity of existence and things in his thought. ~ Giacomo Leopardi

The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced. ~ Giacomo Casanova

After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms. ~ Giacomo Casanova

Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield ... it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own. ~ Giacomo Leopardi

The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small. ~ Giacomo Leopardi

I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely. ~ Giacomo Casanova

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets. ~ Giacomo Leopardi

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. ~ Giacomo Casanova

I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it. ~ Laura San Giacomo

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it. ~ Giacomo Leopardi

Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy. ~ Giacomo Casanova

The Infinite
It was always dear to me, this solitary hill,
and this hedgerow here, that closes out my view,
from so much of the ultimate horizon.
But sitting here, and watching here, in thought,
I create interminable spaces,
greater than human silences, and deepest
quiet, where the heart barely fails to terrify.
When I hear the wind, blowing among these leaves,
I go on to compare that infinite silence
with this voice, and I remember the eternal
and the dead seasons, and the living present,
and its sound, so that in this immensity
my thoughts are drowned, and shipwreck seems sweet
to me in this sea. ~ Giacomo Leopardi

Sleep is the true rehearsal for death, Soobin thought with a sigh. That's why grandma had more dreams of the future the older she got, for death is the future of all things, coming back towards us like a feedback loop. ~ Giacomo Lee

Man is free; but not unless he believes he is[.] ~ Giacomo Casanova

A man who makes known his love by words is a fool. ~ Giacomo Casanova

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent. ~ Giacomo Casanova

Marriage is the tomb of love. ~ Giacomo Casanova

For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand. ~ Laura San Giacomo

Second chances, miracles, angels, faith and religion all promise us a way of doing things better to smooth over the regrets and hope we make better decisions in the future. We all want to become better than who we are now, and we're all continuing to know ourselves better. ~ Laura San Giacomo

Man is doomed either squander his youth, which is the only time he has to store provisions for the coming years and provide for his own well-being, or to spend his youth procuring pleasures in advance for that time of life when he will be too old to enjoy them. ~ Giacomo Leopardi

[W]e avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble[. ~ Giacomo Casanova

Here it is. You assume that I am rich; I am not. I shall have nothing once I have emptied my purse. You perhaps suppose that I am a man of high birth, and I am of a rank either lower than your own or equal to it. I have no talent which can earn money, no employment, no reason to be sure that I shall have anything to eat a few months hence. I have neither relatives nor friends nor rightful claims nor any settled plan. In short, all that I have is youth, health, courage, a modicum of intelligence, a sense of honor and of decency, with a little reading and the bare beginnings of a career in literature. My great treasure is that I am my own master, that I am not dependent upon anyone, and that I am not afraid of misfortunes. My nature tends toward extravagance. Such is the man I am. Now answer me, my beautiful Teresa. ~ Giacomo Casanova

You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain. ~ Giacomo Leopardi

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools. ~ Giacomo Casanova

If you have not done anything worthy of being recorded, at least write something worthy of being read. ~ Giacomo Casanova