Frases de Giacomo Leopardi
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Giacomo Leopardi
Fecha de nacimiento: 29. Junio 1798
Fecha de muerte: 14. Junio 1837
Otros nombres: Giacomo Graf Leopardi
El conde Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi fue un poeta, filósofo, filólogo y erudito italiano del Romanticismo.
Frases Giacomo Leopardi
„ICELANDER: Thus I reply to you. I am well aware you did not make the world for the service of men. It were easier to believe that you made it expressly as a place of torment for them. But tell me: why am I here at all? Did I ask to come into the world? Or am I here unnaturally, contrary to your will? If however, you yourself have placed me here, without giving me the power of acceptance or refusal of this gift of life, ought you not as far as possible to try and make me happy, or at least preserve me from the evils and dangers, which render my sojourn a painful one? And what I say of myself, I say of the whole human race, and of every living creature.“
— Giacomo Leopardi
Essays and Dialogues (1882), Dialogue between Nature and an Icelander
„It seems as though death were the essential aim of all things. That which has no existence cannot die; yet all that exists has proceeded from nothing. The final cause of existence is not happiness, for nothing is happy. It is true, living creatures seek this end in all their works, but none obtain it; and during all their life, ever deceiving, tormenting, and exerting themselves, they suffer indeed for no other purpose than to die.“
— Giacomo Leopardi
Essays and Dialogues (1882), The Song of the Wild Cock
„Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.“
— Giacomo Leopardi
Aphorisms, Thoughts. Translation by J.G. Nichols [Hesperus Press, 2002, ISBN 9781843910121], p. 6
„NATURE: So flees the squirrel from the rattlesnake, and runs in its haste deliberately into the mouth of its tormentor. I am that from which thou fleest.“
— Giacomo Leopardi
Essays and Dialogues (1882), Dialogue between Nature and an Icelander
„ICELANDER: So say all the philosophers. But since that which is destroyed suffers, and that which is born from its destruction also suffers in due course, and finally is in its turn destroyed, would you enlighten me on one point, about which hitherto no philosopher has satisfied me? For whose pleasure and service is this wretched life of the world maintained, by the suffering and death of all the beings which compose it?“
— Giacomo Leopardi
Essays and Dialogues (1882), Dialogue between Nature and an Icelander
