“"And life goes on / even without us / who are far by now"
(da Anima Fragile, 1980)”

“Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.”

“Life goes on within you and without you”

“The immortality of the soul is that there is no death without life and there is no life after death. Life goes on.”

“Give us this day the daily manna, without which, in this rough desert, he backward goes, who toils most to go on.”

“Life is fragile and absurd.”

“There are people who have the ability to wake up a minute or even seconds before their alarm goes off or to know what time they’ve woken up without even looking at a clock. Now, thank God, I don’t have to get up in the mornings but the potential of the body to keep such accurate time is remarkable.”

“Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.”

“O love! O love!
Be with us always
We who will perish salute death
Life alone goes on!”
O caritas, O caritas nobis semper sit amor mos perituri mortem salutamus — ah, ah sola resurgit vita

“…the literary feeds on that fragility of life.”