Alberto Moravia Quotes

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.

Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him...and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love.

When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.

This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.

...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality—just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust.

Because the world to-day is so constructed that no one can do what he would like to do, and he is forced, instead, to do what others wish him to do. Because the question of money always intrudes—into what we do, into what we are, into what we wish to become, into our work, into our highest aspirations, even into our relations with the people we love!

Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.