Eugenio Borgna Quotes
1930–2024 Italy
Eugenio Borgna (1930 – 2024) was an Italian psychiatrist and essayist.
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Nothing gives a person the same strength to resist adversity and pain as Christian, Pascalian hope.
In the term dying, living also remains “alive”; in the word death, life disappears.
Ultimately, and in a nutshell, it is to escape death that we invented language, art, philosophy, and politics.
The experience of infinity, in all its forms, brings us closer to God.
Fairy tales teach us that fear should not be locked away in an inaccessible closet inside ourselves, but felt, experienced, and confronted.
An economic crisis, however serious, never has such a profound impact on the individual conscience as the desolate lack of meaning that characterizes depression.
Only an inner education allows us to look at reality and distinguish what really matters.
The category of the future is the one that is most erased today from an existential and psychological point of view.
The image that lives within us is linked to our conception of life and also to the difference we make between dying and death.
Actions only make sense if we try to grasp their meanings.
This, after all, is the greatest rationality: knowing that life is much more than all our accounts, than all our reasonable predictions.
Some ideals are strong bulwarks, while others fade away, leaving behind an unsustainable backlash.
We must educate ourselves to recognize our inner resonances when we meet others, work, and dream.
Depression pushes us to fully grasp what we are experiencing, and thus our ability to understand others also increases.
When certainties fail, we can only save ourselves on that raft where solidarity with others gives meaning to our sacrifice.
Italians are, in practice, illiterate. It is an emotional illiteracy that prevents us from understanding others.
Graves are made for the living.
The very act of praying every morning introduces us to a day that is more open to hope; which is never just for ourselves, but also for others, and even for those we do not know.
If our eyes are wet with tears, eyes that allow us to empathize with the inner life of the sick person, with their pain, to see the wounded soul deep in their eyes, then we will be able to help.
Emotions are boundless; there are strong emotions and weak emotions, emotions that cannot help but expand conversation and dialogue with others. On the other hand, there are emotions that shut down this dialogue, ultimately making our ongoing relationships with others more difficult.