Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Alessandro Baricco

To die of yearning for something you will never experience

Reasons get forgotten.

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

The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence with the cyclical explosion of nocturnal waves, distant memories of sleepwalking storms and the shipwrecks of dream.

There is nothing that can, in the dark become true

... 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Say the sea. Say the sea. Say the sea. So that perhaps a drop of that magic may wander through time, and something might find it, and save it before it disappears forever. Say the sea. Because it's what we have left. Because faced by the sea, we without crosses, without magic, we must still have a weapon, something, so as not to die in silence, that's all.

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.

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