Alessandro Baricco Quotes

This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.

... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.

It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.

Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say

You were dead.' She said. 'And in the whole world there was nothing beautiful left.

We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.

As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.

To die of yearning for something you will never experience

Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind

Read the flight of your arrow if you want to know your future.

As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.

Reasons get forgotten.

Do you have children? she asked. No. Why? The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.

There is nothing that can, in the dark become true

It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live.