Giovanni Verga

Novelist Italian 1840 – 1922

Italian realist novelist known for The House by the Medlar Tree.

389 quotes

"Perseverance is the art of never admitting defeat."
Perseverance
"Health abandoned is wealth wasted."
Health
"The price of dreams is often paid in waking hours."
Dreams
"Creativity is rebellion wearing the mask of beauty."
Creativity
"Leadership is loneliness with responsibility."
Leadership
"The human spirit survives what the body cannot."
Strength
"The true measure of a man is not found in what he possesses, but in what he has overcome."
Strength
"Life teaches us that silence often speaks louder than words."
Wisdom
"In the struggle between man and society, one discovers who they truly are."
Life
"The poor know the value of things that the rich merely purchase."
Philosophy
"Beauty fades, but character endures through the ages."
Beauty
"To understand humanity, one must first understand suffering."
"The land itself teaches lessons that no schoolmaster ever could."
Nature
"Pride blinds a man to the truth of his own condition."
Truth
"Those who work with their hands build the world that others admire."
Work
"Change comes not from grand gestures, but from the accumulation of small acts."
Change
"The family unit is the foundation upon which all civilization rests."
Family
"Memory is the only immortality we are truly granted."
Time
"In love, the simplest gestures often carry the greatest weight."
Love
"Justice delayed is not merely justice denied; it becomes injustice itself."
Justice
"The artist and the laborer share one thing: the imprint of their soul upon their work."
Art
"To know oneself is the beginning of all wisdom."
Knowledge
"Patience is not weakness; it is the strength to wait for what matters."
Patience
"The cycle of seasons teaches us about the rhythm of life and death."
Nature
"Every man is shaped by the village that raised him."
Life
"Ambition without conscience leads to the corruption of the soul."
Power
"The poor find community in shared struggle; the rich find only isolation."
Relationships
"Stories are the thread that holds communities together across generations."
Literature
"Fear is often just the absence of understanding."
Fear
"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."
History