Igino Ugo Tarchetti Quotes

[M]y sensitivity was unfortunately even more monstrous than my grotesqueness. Yes, my grotesqueness; I possess the courage to judge myself without pity, and to call things by their proper names. If only you knew... how I hate my own self, how much I hate my ugliness, yet never so much as I detest my heart. ~ Iginio Ugo Tarchetti

Forgetting! It is a form of suicide, a renunciation of the only good the we truly and ineluctably possess: the past. For if joys alone were forgotten, perhaps oblivion would be justly desired. But we are proud and jealous of our sorrows, we love them, we want to remember them. It is they that comprise the crown of life. ~ Iginio Ugo Tarchetti

Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order? ~ Ugo Betti

Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid. ~ Ugo Betti

We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously
to love each other, hate each other
but then
it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all! ~ Ugo Betti

Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors. ~ Ugo Betti

We always looked forward to playing Aston Villa to hear him mangle Ugo Ehiogu's name. "Make sure you pick up Ehugu, Ehogy, whatever his name is." ~ Gary Neville

The safari was amazing, to actually see the elephants and the Lions up close and then right at the end to actually get in the cage with the Lion was one of the best moments of the tour. ~ Ugo Monye

When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other. ~ Ugo Betti

Fascist intellectuals, such as Ugo Spirito, made the round of conferences preaching the virtues of postcapitalism fascism and in fact tried to nudge the structure in a 'leftist' direction by calling for more collective control and even corporative ownership of the economy. Mussolini looked abroad to find that Franklin Roosevelt was merely seeking to emulate Italy's innovations. ~ Charles S. Maier

You cannot do silhouettes in fantasy. Ah, no, you must be faithful. It is, the art, a, what you call, paradox. It is always that you must be simple, and then, if you are simple, you will stimulate the imagination of the observer. ~ Ugo Mochi

For years I study. I look long at olive trees, all gray and silver, and watch the sunlight. Ah, yes, I am ver' lazy, but I see after I look long that it is perspective that give it this quality. Perspective, and absolute faith to the subject. ~ Ugo Mochi

Be careful who you make memories with. Those things can last a lifetime. ~ Ugo Eze

To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises. ~ Ugo Betti

I am very much afraid that the loss of Cyrenaica will have serious political consequences for the Duce. ~ Ugo Cavallero

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame. ~ Ugo Betti

(UGO, about Crank) I see the addiction to video games because you want to win them and it's just hard enough so you'd want to keep playing it over and over to try to figure it out. I definitely feel the movie is like a game at times but I'm not a huge videogame lover. ~ Amy Smart

Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character. ~ Ugo Betti

Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever. ~ Ugo Betti

The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention. ~ Ugo Betti

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead. ~ Ugo Betti

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned. ~ Ugo Betti

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on. ~ Ugo Betti

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted. ~ Ugo Betti

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber. ~ Ugo Betti

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it. ~ Ugo Betti

I use a special tool. I make it myself; very sharp steel point and a handle like a pencil. For me it is a pencil. Maybe I have a special talent, a feeling you might say that lets me control it, to express my ideas as though I were sketching black on white. ~ Ugo Mochi

We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that. ~ Ugo Betti

I'm as happy as I can be-but I have been happier. ~ Ugo Ehiogu

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it. ~ Ugo Betti

All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name. ~ Ugo Betti

We would have to make clear to our German ally our disagreement on three points: treatment of the occupied countries, excesses towards the Jews, and relations with the Papacy. One ought to try to create a true European federation respectful of each nationality. ~ Ugo Cavallero

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all. ~ Ugo Betti