Famous Menotti Lerro Quotes
Source: The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, p. 52
From The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, p. 41
Menotti Lerro Quotes about love
Source: The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, p. 20
“Betraying who you love is like betraying yourself!”
Donna Giovanna, Act III, scene iv.
Theater Quotes
Brunella, Act II, scene ii.
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Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene iii.
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“The absence of one we love is not solitude, it is severance.”
L’assenza di chi si ama non è solitudine è ablazione.
Menotti Lerro Quotes about life
“Men were born to die! Life has only one purpose: to understand the sense of your own misery.”
Donna Giovanna, Act IV, scene iii.
Donna Giovanna, Act IV, scene iii.
Theater Quotes
“We deceive ourselves to be the same for our whole life, instead we are other every moment.”
Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene iii.
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Menotti Lerro Quotes
“When a devil, but also a saint, laughs about your poetry, you laugh about his ignorance!”
Donna Giovanna, Act IV, scene iii.
“If God entrusted his word to priests, it’s easy to explain why the world refuses to listen to it.”
Donna Giovanna, Act IV, scene ii.
Theater Quotes
Donna Giovanna, Act III, scene iv.
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“We should never be afraid of our dreams, but only of who doesn’t want to make us dream.”
Dario, Act III, scene iV.
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“Women don’t think with the heart, but with emotions.”
Donna Giovanna, Act II, scene v.
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“I know that in a pure heart a wicked person does more damage than a hailstorm in a vineyard.”
Dario, Act II, scene ii.
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Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene iii.
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Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene iii.
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Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene ii.
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Donna Giovanna, Act I, scene ii.
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Dove sarà mai la luce promessa? C’è forse un paradiso tra le nuvole, riposo nel vento, ristoro nei fondali marini? Dove finisce il buio, l’insonnia, la pazzia, il pianto, la malattia, la morte? Dove si nasconde Dio?
FROM: Andrew Mangham, The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2011, pp. 71-72. ISBN 978-1443828444
“Religiously, I consider myself an atheistic theologian.”
Religiosamente mi reputo un teologo ateo.
“Often behind a great man there is great pain.”
Spesso dietro un grande uomo c’è una grande sofferenza.
“There is no day without darkness and night without light.”
Non c’è giorno senza tenebre e notte senza luce.
“We should live two lives in order to understand the world: one as a man and the other as a woman.”
Bisognerebbe vivere due vite per capire il mondo: una come uomo e l’altra come donna.
“We were born as a blank page and we will die as a black page.”
Si nasce come una pagina bianca e si muore come una pagina nera.
“When men feel happy, they think of men who love; when they feel sad they think and pray to God.”
Gli uomini quando si sentono felici pensano agli uomini che amano, quando si sentono tristi pensano e pregano Dio.
La filosofia fallirà per sempre il suo primario obiettivo, poiché ricerca qualcosa che non esiste.
“We do not have anything, but the body. The soul is an invention, dust of the cross.”
Non abbiamo che il corpo. L’anima è un’invenzione, polvere di croce.
