Italo Svevo

"Happiness is the pursuit that destroys the possibility of happiness."

"Technology promises to free us while slowly making us its prisoners."

"The family is the first society, the first economy, the first tragedy."

"Humor is the only honest response to the absurdity of existence."

"The man who has faith is the one who has doubted"

"Life is a disease, but we are born already infected"

"To betray oneself is perhaps the greatest sin"

"We are all sick, but some of us refuse to admit it"

"The only true voyage is one undertaken within"

"Time passes differently for those who suffer"

"A man without self-knowledge is a man without truth"

"Love is the poetry of the senses"

"We deceive ourselves more than others ever could"

"Regret is the price we pay for living fully"

"The past is a country we cannot leave"

"Art is the language of those who cannot speak"

"To forgive is not to forget, but to move forward"

"Weakness is often disguised as strength"

"The mind creates more suffering than the body"

"Truth demands courage we rarely possess"

"Every man is a contradiction he must learn to live with"

"Freedom exists only in our acceptance of necessity"

"We are all actors in a play we did not write"

"Love teaches us what we did not wish to know"

"The cost of living is higher than we imagined"

"Illness reveals what health conceals"

"The pursuit of happiness often leads to its escape"

"Memory is a ruthless editor of experience"

"We are each the prisoners of our own desires"

"Success is often the beginning of failure"