Quote

Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.

Oriana Fallaci

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Oriana Fallaci
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 29
Died: 2006
Died: September 15
Conspiracy Theorist
Journalist
Politician
War Correspondent
Writer
Florence
Tuscany
Kill
Dead
Alive
Living
Death
Sometimes

More quotes by Oriana Fallaci

Image
I don't want to hear about my death.
Oriana Fallaci
Image
I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.
Oriana Fallaci
Image
To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.
Oriana Fallaci
Image
Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony... In each of our cities lies a second city: a Muslim city, a city run by the Quran. A stage in the Islamic expansionism.
Oriana Fallaci
Image
Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
Oriana Fallaci
Image
If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.
Oriana Fallaci
Image
I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.
Oriana Fallaci
Image
How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!
Oriana Fallaci
Image
Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.
Oriana Fallaci
Image
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
Oriana Fallaci
Image
I am angry at the Jews for many things... If you want to take the example of America, how they hold the power, the economical power in so many ways, and the press and the other kind of stuff... I never realized how it happened and they came to control the media to that point. Why?
Oriana Fallaci
Image
I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
Oriana Fallaci
Image
There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.
Oriana Fallaci
Image
I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
Oriana Fallaci
Image
But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madnessif you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.
Oriana Fallaci
Image
I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.
Oriana Fallaci
Image
I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
Oriana Fallaci
Image
No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.
Oriana Fallaci
Image
The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
Oriana Fallaci
Image
I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
Oriana Fallaci