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Top 500 Elena Ferrante Quotes (2025 Update)
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Elena Ferrante Quote: “La culpa la tiene tu cabeza que no sabe calmarse, busca sin cesar una manera de funcionar.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “I now knew a method of speaking and writing that – by means of a refined vocabulary, stately and thoughtful pacing, a determined arrangement of arguments, and a formal orderliness that wasn’t supposed to fail – sought to annihilate the interlocutor to the point where he lost the will to object.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “When I opened my eyes again, five hours later, at seven o’clock on Saturday August 4th, I had trouble getting my bearings. The hardest day of the ordeal of my abandonment was about to begin, but I didn’t know it yet.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “One April afternoon, right after lunch, my husband announced that he wanted to leave me.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “But the happy ending has to do with the tricks of the narrative, not with life, or even love, which is an uncontrollable, changeable feeling, with nasty surprises that are alien to the happy ending.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “That year it seemed to me that I expanded like pizza dough.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “It was predictable, of course, but now that a date had been fixed, March 12th, it was as if I had been strolling absentmindedly and banged into a door.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me... I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “When the task we give ourselves has the urgency of passion, there’s nothing that can keep us from completing it.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “For her whole life she would sacrifice to him every quality of her own, and he wouldn’t even be aware of the sacrifice, he would be surrounded by the wealth of feeling, intelligence, imagination that were hers, without knowing what to do with them, he would ruin them.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Lila shook her head skeptically. She was trying to understand, we were both trying to understand, and understanding was something that we loved to do.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Our world was like that, full of words that killed: croup, tetanus, typhus, gas, war, lathe, rubble, work, bombardment, bomb, tuberculosis, infection. With these words and those years I bring back the many fears that accompanied me all my life.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Adults, waiting for tomorrow, move in a present behind which is yesterday or the day before yesterday or at most last week: they don’t want to think about the rest. Children don’t know the meaning of yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “You can be hurt only if you love someone. But I don’t love anyone.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “The mass of the educated spend their lives commenting lazily on the ideas of others. They engage their best energies in sadistic practices against every possible rival.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Estrangement and belonging, an effect of distance and closeness at the same time.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “I concluded that first of all I had to understand better what I was. Investigate my nature as a woman. I had been excessive, I had striven to give myself male capacities. I thought I had to know everything, be concerned with everything. What did I care about politics, about struggles. I wanted to make a good impression on men, be at their level. At the level of what, of their reason, most unreasonable.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Parole: con quelle si fa e si disfa come si vuole.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “The waves rolled in like blue metal tubes carrying an egg white of foam on their peaks, then broke in a thousand glittering splinters and came up to the street with an oh of wonder and fear from those watching.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “I soon discovered that I was getting used to being happy and unhappy at the same time, as if that were the new, inevitable law of my life.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “The girl, perhaps without even realizing it, and who knows for how long, had been assessing the power of her swaying body, her restless eyes, on my husband; and he looked at her as one looks from a gray area at a white wall struck by the sun.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “I began to weep with loneliness. What was I, who was I? I felt pretty again, my pimples were gone, the sun and the sea had made me slimmer, and yet the person I liked and whom I wished to be liked by showed no interest in me.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “How can I explain to this woman – I thought – that from the age of six I’ve been a slave to letters and numbers, that my mood depends on the success of their combinations, that the joy of having done well is rare, unstable, that it lasts an hour, an afternoon, a night?”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “I had the impression that, although I was absorbing much of that sight, many things, too many, were scattering around me without letting me grasp them.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “What’s got into me? Do I want children? Do I want to be a mamma, nursing and singing lullabies? Marriage plus pregnancy? And if my mother should emerge from my stomach just now when I think I’m safe?”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Yes, it’s Lila who makes writing difficult. My life forces me to imagine what hers would have been if what happened to me had happened to her, what use she would have made of my luck.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Depressed I went out into the heat that lay on the neighborhood like a hand swollen with fever in that season, and made my way to the library.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “What a mistake, above all, it had been to believe that I couldn’t live without him, when for a long time I had not been at all certain that I was alive with him.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “To tolerate existence, we lie, and we lie above all to ourselves. Sometimes we tell ourselves lovely tales, sometimes petty lies. Falsehoods protect us, mitigate suffering, allow us to avoid the terrifying moment of serious reflection, they dilute the horrors of our time, they even save us from ourselves.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “I knew – perhaps I hoped – that no form could ever contain Lila, and that sooner or later she would break everything again.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “It seemed that everyone was shouting too loudly and moving too quickly. This sensation was accompanied by nausea, and she had had the impression that something absolutely material, which had been present around her and around everyone and everything forever, but imperceptible, was breaking down the outlines of persons and things and revealing itself.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “That last phrase, the elegant jump from malicious gossip to compliment, seemed to me so very successful that I thought of adult normality precisely as an art of that type. I had something to learn.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “This is what awaits me, I thought. Evenings like this. Appearing at the house of strangers, marked as a woman waiting to remake her life.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Lila is right, one writes not so much to write, one writes to inflict pain on those who wish to inflict pain. The pain of words against the pain of kicks and punches and the instruments of death.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Who says I’m vain?” “The comparison: your friend isn’t. But I’m sorry for her, vanity is a resource. If you’re vain you pay attention to yourself and your affairs.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “What is clear to me, always, is that the writing must never lose sight of truth as its ultimate goal. Page after page, the drive to capture what is true, and not what resembles the truth, shapes the work. If, even for a few passages, the tone becomes false – that is, too studied, too limpid, too regimented, too well-phrased – I am obliged to stop and to figure out where I started to go wrong. If I can’t, I throw everything away.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “We don’t know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Maybe I should tell her that things without a meaning are the most beautiful ones.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “One becomes affectionate toward men slowly, whether they coincide or not with whomever in the various phases of life we have taken as the model of a man.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “What a complex foamy mixture a couple is. Even if the relationship shatters and ends, it continues to act in secret pathways, it doesn’t die, it doesn’t want to die.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “El mundo da vueltas, menos mal, si se cae, se rompe.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Bugie, bugie, gli adulti le vietano, intanto ne dicono tante.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Most of those who came were women, and I was now much criticized, now much praised by opposing groups. At first I was frightened, but Mariarosa interceded with authority and I discovered in myself an unsuspected capacity to summarize disagreement and agreement, choosing in the meantime a role as mediator. I was good at saying in a convincing way: That isn’t exactly what I meant.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “It’s relaxing, I thought, I was wrong not to come sooner. I had a friend of my age with her own house, full of opulent, orderly things. That.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “How quickly people changed, with their interests, their feelings. Well-made phrases replaced by well-made phrases, time is a flow of words coherent only in appearance, the one who piles up the most is the one who wins.”
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