Top 40 Luigina Sgarro Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “There is no communication that is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.”

— Luigina Sgarro

2. “When we miss someone, often, what we really miss is the part of us that with this someone awakens.”

— Luigina Sgarro

3. “I think there is a substantial difference between hypocrisy and diplomacy: hypocrisy is not saying things, diplomacy is knowing how to say things.”

— Luigina Sgarro

4. “In long-standing relationships, sometimes, it’s not that the other person become marginal, rather you tend to consider your partner a part of yourself and, as for your arm, even if you never say how important it is to you, it would be terrible if it wasn’t there.”

— Luigina Sgarro

5. “If you feel, looking at the pain of others, more pain than they actually feel, it is no longer empathy or compassion, it is projection.”

— Luigina Sgarro

6. “Unfortunately, love is more often an alibi than a reason.”

— Luigina Sgarro

7. “Cynophilist: paradoxical being that often despises man and adores the dog, apparently, mainly because of the unconditional love that the latter has for the first.”

— Luigina Sgarro

8. “Insomnia can be a gift. More time for reading, writing and walking. More time to live.”

— Luigina Sgarro

9. “The highest indifference is when indeed you ignore you are ignoring someone.”

— Luigina Sgarro

10. “We are vulnerable, not fragile, but our desire to go through life without feeling pain makes us feel fragile.”

— Luigina Sgarro

11. “There is no worse thing that can be done to some people than to show them a solution to the problems they complain about.”

— Luigina Sgarro

12. “I recognize the beauty of moments. It’s with the minutes that things get complicated.”

— Luigina Sgarro

13. “I believe in love and I believe that a healthy love stems from love for oneself, so it is never desperate, even in the worst event, in which the other leaves us sorry to die in the fullness of love, a true feeling turns that into energy to go forward with joy and even more strength than before. True love leaves no room for despair, true love is beyond hope.”

— Luigina Sgarro

14. “You are never so a stranger as when you become a stranger.”

— Luigina Sgarro

15. “People aren’t things., we cannot lose them nor someone can take them away from us. They choose to leave.”

— Luigina Sgarro

16. “Giving is a way of asking; asking is a way of giving.”

— Luigina Sgarro

17. “If you want to foresee the behavior of someone, their personality is a better predictor than their intelligence.”

— Luigina Sgarro

18. “We spend most of our lives looking for reassurance from others until we find that others are looking for reassurance from us. And somebody has to stop this.”

— Luigina Sgarro

19. “Sometimes deception is in our eyes and we need to believe more than others need to lie.”

— Luigina Sgarro

20. “Every time we think we notice another person’s mistake we can delude ourselves that we are superior to them, but it is only when we notice our own mistake that we can be sure that we are surpassing ourselves.”

— Luigina Sgarro

21. “The love of the present is just a love of the past that hasn’t had enough time.”

— Luigina Sgarro

22. “Insecurity takes on various disguises. Cockiness and arrogance are among the most common.”

— Luigina Sgarro

23. “The opinion that one cannot express an opinion, however potentially harmful, is the most dangerous of all. The only effective way that I know of to fight an idea that we believe to be potentially damaging to our values, principles, ideals, is to try to support the validity of alternative points of view. The more you talk about something or someone or prevent them from expressing themselves, the more you give them strength, even – and perhaps above all – when you talk about them badly.”

— Luigina Sgarro

24. “There is no such thing as perfect communication; there is effective communication, which is a process of feedback and progressive adjustments. The delusion that perfect communication is possible generates a frustration that damages our relationships and personal lives.”

— Luigina Sgarro

25. “Madness is believing that two people who have not been able to get along well together can break up nicely.”

— Luigina Sgarro

26. “Many do not see that not to have dreams is far worse than seeing that their dreams do not come true.”

— Luigina Sgarro

27. “It may happen that we miss people that we took care of more than we miss those who took care of us, because the desire to love and the search for meaning, together, are stronger than the desire to be loved.”

— Luigina Sgarro

28. “Last Sunday I went to an art exhibition, among the visitors there was a guy with one leg missing. He had two crutches with which he moved nimbly among the visitors. I looked at him in admiration, wondering how easy it looked. Then it occurred to me that many of us are like that, we have got used to living without pieces of our heart and soul and we go on as if nothing had happened. And, looking at us from the outside, it seems easy.”

— Luigina Sgarro

29. “We really love someone when we miss even the things we don’t like of them.”

— Luigina Sgarro

30. “I am always looking for rainbows, literally and metaphorically, only that I am starting to think that I could learn more from my journey if, from time to time, I were brave enough to stay in the rain longer.”

— Luigina Sgarro

31. “When you feel you are incomplete you can always console yourself with the idea of being infinite.”

— Luigina Sgarro

32. “To be with the right person cannot solve all your life’s problem, on the other hand, being with the wrong one can create many.”

— Luigina Sgarro

33. “If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepared for the unexpected.”

— Luigina Sgarro

34. “Reading a great novel gives the same feeling you have when you fall in love.”

— Luigina Sgarro

35. “If we could imagine, while we live them, to what mundane moments nostalgia manages to stick itself...”

— Luigina Sgarro

36. “Relationships are tested by distance, love is put to the test by closeness.”

— Luigina Sgarro

37. “Everyone wants to get to the top but not everyone is willing to walk uphill.”

— Luigina Sgarro

38. “What we really cannot forgive others it is not that they don’t do what we want them to do but that they don’t do it willingly.”

— Luigina Sgarro

39. “I prefer to die fighting than living defeated.”

— Luigina Sgarro

40. “There is the freedom you have when you are alone and there is the freedom that you have next to someone else. Blessed are those in which those two freedoms coincide.”

— Luigina Sgarro

41. “What are narcissists looking for, after all? Just someone at their level that they can feel superior to.”

— Luigina Sgarro

42. “The ease with which unsolicited help is offered and the reluctance with which help is given when – instead – it is asked, should make us reflect on the real motivations behind so-called “altruistic” actions.”

— Luigina Sgarro

43. “I don’t think I would like to be immortal, not out of boredom about life but out of curiosity about death.”

— Luigina Sgarro

44. “We end up being unknown to those who have known us for too long.”

— Luigina Sgarro