The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are shat…

- Natalia Ginzburg

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

- Natalia Ginzburg

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

- Natalia Ginzburg

But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

- Natalia Ginzburg

My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.

- Natalia Ginzburg

Italy is a country which is willing to submit itself to the worst governments. It is, as we know, a country ruled by disorder, cynicism, incompetence…

- Natalia Ginzburg

But the English do not know what surprise is. No one ever turns his head to look at anyone else in the street.

- Natalia Ginzburg

Over my real sorrows I never weep.

- Natalia Ginzburg

I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.

- Natalia Ginzburg