Best 8 quotes of Leonardo Sciascia on MyQuotes

A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.

I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.

The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.

The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. Leonardo Sciascia

Ad un certo punto della vita non è la speranza l’ultima a morire, ma il morire è l’ultima speranza.

…And the sound of the sea, like the wild-animal breath of the world itself, frightened them as it gasped and died at their feet.

There's a proverb, a maxim, that runs, 'The dead man is dead; let's give a hand to the living.' Now, you say that to a man from the North, and he visualizes the scene of an accident with one dead and one injured man; it's reasonable to let the dead man be and to set about saving the injured man. But a Sicilian visualizes a murdered man and his murderer, and the living man who's to be helped is the murderer.

Yaşamda belli bir noktaya gelince, en son ölen umut değil, en son umut ölümdür.