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Top 500 Elena Ferrante Quotes (2025 Update)
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Elena Ferrante Quote: “No, words rarely go to the right place, and if they do, it’s only for a very brief time. Otherwise they’re useful for speaking nonsense, as now. Or for pretending that everything is under control.” “Pretending? You who have always kept everything under control, you were pretending?” “Why not? It’s unavoidable to pretend a little.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “I saw her fly toward the asphalt and felt a cruel joy. She seemed to me, as she fell, an ugly creature.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Studieren galt als ein Trick der pfiffigsten jungen Leute zur Vermeidung harter Arbeit.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “But at times, as if a drug had flooder her veins, Lila seemed unable to bear the order she had imposed on herself.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “I perceived immediately that none of those young people were there for the pleasure of being together. Behind the good manners were tensions, enmities, and if they could have they would surely have spent the evening in another way. But.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “If people had been horrified at those who wanted to overthrow the state, now they were disgusted by those who, pretending to serve it, had consumed it, like a fat worm in the apple.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “I don’t want anything, I’m made of nothing. I hoped to wake in the morning without desires.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Io – dopo tanta fatica – non so pensare. Nemmeno Mariarosa sa: ha letto pagine e pagine e le ricombina con estro, dando spettacolo. Tutto qui. Lila invece sa. E’ la sua natura. Se avesse studiato, avrebbe saputo pensare a questo modo.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “When some handsome youth fell, pierced by a blade beaten on the anvil of death, immediately beggars, bourgeois citizens, kings and queens offered applause that rose to the stars. Ah, the violence: tearing, killing, ripping.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Right after her funeral I felt the way you feel when it suddenly starts raining hard, and you look around and find no place to take shelter.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “In the wealthier countries a mediocrity that hides the horrors of the rest of the world has prevailed. When those horrors release a violence that reaches into our cities and our habits we’re startled, we’re alarmed.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “I there first felt the impact of time, the force that was pushing me toward forty, the velocity with which life was consumed, the concreteness of the exposure to death: If it’s happening to her, I thought, there’s no escape, it will happen to me as well.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Although I imposed on myself an appearance of self-assurance and an iron discipline, I gave in continuously, with painful pleasure, to waves of unhappiness.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “I believe that, for those who love to write, time spent writing is never wasted. And then isn’t it from book to book that we approach the book that we really want to write?”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “She knew how to go beyond the limit without ever truly suffering the consequences. In the end people gave in, and were even, however unwillingly, compelled to praise her.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “I don’t want my mother to die worrying about her sons.” “Comfort her.” “How.” She smiled. “With lies. Lies are better than tranquilizers.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “En los momentos de crisis, con mucha frecuencia las mujeres tratamos de calmarnos escribiendo.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Finally she cried with rage and at the same time maternal pride, “What happened when I conceived you, an accident, a hiccup, a convulsion, the lights went out, a bulb blew, the basin of water fell off the night table? Certainly there must have been something, if you were born so intolerable, so different from the others.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Cada cual se organiza el recuerdo como le conviene.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “The university doesn’t free women but completes their repression.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Professor Galiani listened and was impressed by her sincerity, by her unsettling tone, by the intense Italian of her sentences, by her skillfully controlled irony. She must have felt in Lila, I imagine, that elusive quality that seduced and at the same time alarmed, a siren power: it could happen to anyone, it happened to her, and.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “In conversations with my daughters I hear omitted words or phrases. Sometimes they get mad, they say Mama, I never said that, you’re saying it, you invented it. But I invent nothing; you just have to listen – the unspoken says more than the spoken.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Maybe,” she said, and I saw that I had hurt her as she had hurt me.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “I was secretly convinced that I would truly exist only at the moment when my signature, Elena Greco, appeared in print...”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Io sono l’otto di spada, io sono la vespa che punge, io sono la serpe scura. lo sono l’animale invulnerabile che attraversa il fuoco e non si brucia.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Eve can’t, doesn’t know how, doesn’t have the material to be Eve outside of Adam. Her evil and her good are evil and good according to Adam. Eve is Adam as a woman. And the divine work was so successful that she herself, in herself, doesn’t know what she is, she has pliable features, she doesn’t possess her own language, she doesn’t have a spirit or logic of her own, she loses her shape easily.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Hay situaciones en que las elecciones te vienen impuestas.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Soon she’ll start yelling, I thought, soon she’ll hit her, trying to break that bond. Instead, the bond will become more twisted, will strengthen in remorse, in the humiliation of having shown herself in public to be an unaffectionate mother, not the mother of church or the Sunday supplements.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Lila’s world, as usual, rapidly superimposed itself on mine. Everything that I had written in July and August seemed to me trivial, I was seized by a frenzy to redeem myself.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Life without seeing and without speaking, without speaking and listening, life without a covering, with a container is shapeless.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “It was as if, because of an evil spell, the joy or sorrow of on required the sorrow or joy of the other; even our physical aspect, it seemed to me, shared in that swing.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Volevo scrivere storie piene di spifferi.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Writing is, rather, entering an immense cemetery where every tomb is waiting to be profaned. Writing is getting comfortable with everything that has already been written – great literature and commercial literature, if useful, the novel-essay and the screenplay – and in turn becoming, within the limits of one’s own dizzying, crowded individuality, something written. Writing is seizing everything that has already been written and gradually learning to spend that enormous fortune.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “How and when words escape from books and the books end up seeming like empty graves is something to think about.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “She was suggesting that I separate also from my third child. She seemed to be saying: Imma would be better off and so would you. I replied: If Imma leaves me, too, my life will no longer have meaning. But she smiled: Where is it written that lives should have meaning?”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “See where that argument with the religion teacher led, every choice has its history, so many moments of our existence are shoved into a corner, waiting for an outlet, and in the end the outlet arrives. But I would have been exaggerating, in reality it was much simpler.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “She became transparent skin over bones, her eyes drowning in violet wells, her hands damp spider webs.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “The odor was of lunchtime or dinnertime, when, coming from every doorway, the smells of the various dishes mingle in the stairwell but are ruined by a stink of mold and cobwebs.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “And yet now that we were seventeen the substance of time itself no longer seemed fluid but had assumed a gluelike consistency and churned around us like a yellow cream in a confectioner’s machine.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “Then he added, in an almost threatening tone: Without these rasping hands, professor, not a chair would exist, or a building, a car, nothing, not even you; if we workers stopped working everything would stop, the sky would fall to earth and the earth would shoot up the sky, the plants would take over the cities, the Arno would flood your fine houses, and only those who have always worked would know how to survive, and as for you two, you with all your books, the dogs would tear you to pieces.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “La lontananza mi distingueva dentro ogni legame e ogni preoccupazione.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “But I did think of leaving my husband, I was looking for the right moment. You wait, you get tired, you start waiting again.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “My job, I thought, is to demonstrate that one can remain healthy. Demonstrate it to myself, no one else. If I am exposed to lizards, I will fight the lizards. If I am exposed to ants, I will fight the ants. If I am exposed to thieves, I will fight the thieves. If I am exposed to myself, I will fight myself.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “But above all I no longer wanted to know if it was strychnine or something else that had killed Otto. The dog had fallen through a hole in the net of events. We leave so many of them, lacerations of negligence, when we put together cause and effect. The essential thing was that the string, the weave that now supported me, should hold. 43.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “As a girl I had liked obscene language, it gave me a sense of masculine freedom. Now I knew that obscenity could raise sparks of madness if it came from a mouth as controlled as mine. So I closed my eyes, I held my hands and squeezed my eyelids.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “What we were at the beginning is only a vague patch of colour contemplated from the edge of what we have become.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “I know – it stayed in her head without becoming sound – I know what a comfortable life full of good intentions means, you can’t even imagine what real misery is.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “I thought: not even Lila, in spite of everything, has managed to escape from my mother’s world.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “But at the same time I was grateful for the small dose of humiliation and pain he had inflicted on me. I went around the bed, sat on the edge beside him, and masturbated him. He let me do it, with his eyes closed. He ejaculated without a moan, as if he were feeling no pleasure.”
Elena Ferrante Quote: “I slipped away, and am still slipping away, within these lines that are intended to give me a story yet in fact are nothing, nothing of mine, nothing that has really begun or really been brought to completion, only a tangled knot, and nobody, not even she who at this moment is writing, knows if it contains the right thread for a story or is merely a snarled confusion of suffering, without redemption.”
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