All Our Yesterdays Quotes

“And they laughed a little and were very friendly together, the three of them, Anna, Emanuele and Giustino; and they were pleased to be together, the three of them, thinking of all those who were dead, and of the long war and the sorrow and noise and confusion, and of the long, difficult life which they saw in front of them now, full of all the things they did not know how to do.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, All Our Yesterdays

“Two little provincial intellectuals, that was what they were, and that is the dreariest and oddest thing that can exist on earth.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, All Our Yesterdays

“But he said that all men made you sorry for them if you looked at them closely, and that in fact one ought to guard against that excess of compassion which arose suddenly, from looking closely at people.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, All Our Yesterdays

“All these were things that at present seemed like a dream, because Fascism was in power and Fascism wanted people to let themselves crumble away.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, All Our Yesterdays

“Fanfares of trumpets usually announced only small, futile things, it was a way fate had of teasing people. You felt a great exaltation and heard a loud fanfare of trumpets in the sky. But the serious things of life, on the contrary, took you by surprise, they spurted up all of a sudden like water.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, All Our Yesterdays

“But it was incredible how fear and danger never produced ignoble words but always true ones, words that were torn from your very heart.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, All Our Yesterdays

“And no one knew what was in store for the dead, he said, perhaps nothing at all but perhaps, on the other hand, there was something, probably a great boredom, he said, a deathly boredom.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, All Our Yesterdays

“And Ippolito too, in his own way, had been a real person, even though he had come to that insect-like end.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, All Our Yesterdays

“And Ippolito too, in his own way, had been a real person, even though he had come to that
insect-like end.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, All Our Yesterdays

“… he thought how strange it was that the eyes of men should pass across things without leaving any trace, thousands and thousands of dead men’s eyes had rested upon that green and humming countryside.”
― Natalia Ginzburg, All Our Yesterdays