30 Beautiful Quotes About Italy
The world if full of fascinating places to visit, breathtaking views to see, interesting people to meet, and history to learn about. But in Italy there is something different. Something that so many throughout time have written about in hopes of trying to give a better understanding of just how incredibly magical it really is. There is something that stirs the soul in Italy. Something achingly beautiful, mysterious and mesmerizing that the soul doesn’t even know exists until it is wrapped up in and around it. And then. It. Knows. It finally understands what they have all been talking about…all been dreaming about. All been eating and drinking about. That wild calm. That loud peace. That magic. That perfect imperfection. Italy
I have felt THAT feeling so many times over the past few weeks while searching out, reading and selecting the quotes below. In my opinion, these are the ones that are the most “make you fall in love with Italy”, soul stirring ones around…and they have left me feeling like I need to go out and buy a plane ticket. I think you will want to too! The first quote is my favorite! Which one is yours?
“You may have the world if I may have Italy”
“The name of Italy has magic in its very syllables.”
“Italy offers one the most priceless of one’s possessions - One’s own soul”
Rome
“Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.”
“Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome.”
“If we could be reborn wherever we chose, how crowded Rome would be, populated by souls who had spent their previous lives longing to inhabit a villa on the Janiculum Hill.”
“Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building after seeing Italy.”
“A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see”
“How beautiful is sunset, when the glow of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!
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““The Creator made Italy from designs by Michaelangelo.””
“I find other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.”
“A man has not fully lived until he experiences that gentle balmy climate of ancient empires, the land of lemon trees and the genius of Michelangelo.”
Florence
“ Life is a combination of magic and pasta”
“Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvelous than the land.”
“Italy was where the soul went to find calm and love, and I wanted to hold the best of it in the palm of my hand.”
“I gasp for air if I don’t get to breathe Italian air once a year.”
“Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it, “Italy”.”
Venice
“Venice is eternity itself.”
“All of Venice is tattered, resewn, achingly lovely, and like an enchantress, she disarms me, making off with the very breath of me.”
“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.”
“Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.”
“Venice, it’s temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.”
“So… Italian gelato. Take the deliciousness of a regular ice-cream cone, times it by a million, then sprinkle it with crushed-up unicorn horns.”
“In America, one must be something, but in Italy one can simply be.”
“Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.”
“Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.”
“Maybe money can’t buy happiness, but it can get you a nice little villa in Tuscany, and that’s close enough for me.”
“Even now I miss Italy dearly, I dream about it every night.”
“For sure, in Italy, the sun always shines.”
“Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life”
Happy Dreaming and happy travels!
A presto,
Lonielle