Dino Buzzati

Novelist Playwright Italian 1906 – 1972

Italian writer known for The Tartar Steppe.

393 quotes

"Success is often just the ability to endure disappointment."
Success
"The imagination creates reality before reality creates itself."
Imagination
"Friendship thrives in the spaces between words."
Friendship
"Knowledge without wonder is mere accumulation."
Knowledge
"We build walls around our hearts and call it wisdom."
Truth
"The pursuit of happiness often prevents us from finding it."
Happiness
"Nature speaks to those who have learned to listen."
Nature
"Dreams are the only honesty available to us."
Dreams
"Work becomes meaningful only when it serves something beyond itself."
Work
"The strength to persevere comes from accepting our weakness."
Perseverance
"Gratitude is the antidote to despair."
Gratitude
"Creativity flourishes in constraint, not in freedom."
Creativity
"Peace is not the absence of conflict but acceptance of it."
Peace
"Beauty often hides in what we initially find repulsive."
Beauty
"The human heart is an inexhaustible mystery."
Relationships
"Solitude teaches us what company cannot."
Solitude
"Motivation is a luxury; discipline is a necessity."
Motivation
"We are defined not by our choices but by what we refuse to choose."
Philosophy
"Power corrupts most easily those who believe they are powerless."
Power
"Money is simply crystallized freedom."
Money
"Health is the unnoticed wealth we squander daily."
Health
"Adventure begins where certainty ends."
Adventure
"History repeats not because we forget but because we misunderstand."
History
"Technology is our attempt to escape the human condition."
Technology
"Justice is what the powerful convince themselves to want."
Justice
"Music is mathematics expressing its soul."
Music
"Faith is not belief in the impossible but trust in the unknown."
Faith
"Leadership is the burden of seeing what others refuse to see."
Leadership
"Education teaches us what to think, not how to question."
Education
"War is what happens when words fail us."
War