"Zeno's Conscience" Quotes
"Zeno's Conscience" by Italo Svevo follows the introspective journey of Zeno Cosini, an Italian businessman, as he humorously examines his life, relationships, and futile attempts to quit smoking through psychoanalysis.
fiction | 464 pages | Published in 2015
Quotes
When you are in love, you are capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think.
Every passion, ultimately, has its spectator... in other words, it is no longer a passion.
I am a man of great wisdom, I thought, merely because I am old.
Life is too full of distractions for me to be able to concentrate on myself.
It is only after the event that one knows the truth.
We are never free from our terrible past.
My conscience is like a mirror, it reflects only the things I do not wish to see.
The future is never what we expect, it is always the unknown that shapes our destiny.
I have always considered myself a coward because I have always fled from anything that could bring me harm.
It is only when we are ill that we understand how selfish the healthy are.
