Vittorino Andreoli Quotes
born 1940 Italy
q:it:Vittorino Andreoli (1940) is an Italian psychiatrist and author.
- Italy
- Non-fiction authors
- Psychiatrists
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Pain makes more noise than any other noise.
Marriage is my life with her and our children, but none of us can say that it has been a forty-year trip out of town.
We sell them weapons, because the disease of power has spread everywhere, and they throw away every resource, even human lives, to wage and win wars, wars of misery.
Man would not survive in the dark without a light bulb to illuminate a page to read or to power a computer on which to type a new world, which also depends on energy.
The powerful do not know how to love; the man of iron is cold, he knows how to envelop and bind in order to subjugate, to enslave.
The end is not a distant appointment, but a present that perpetuates itself, and so we die continuously and are dead even when we breathe.
Violence does not make history, it is not a difficulty that can be worked through, but simply a war that leads only to the death of love and sometimes even of its protagonists.
Dracula is a psychiatric novel in the sense that it focuses on strange behavior. The word madness is frequently used.
The sense of belonging. This is marriage.
In the family, where daily disagreements have disappeared, dramas made up of extreme behaviors arise.
The Song of Songs speaks of necessary love: being two makes it possible to exist for those who separately would not have made it, would have broken.
The non-believer is someone who feels the limits of their own existence, and who, while using reason and considering it the best way to solve many existential problems, and certainly as a scientific tool, wants to push it further to question the mystery.
The limit of energy becomes the limit of civilization, of a civilization that seems to be one of well-being and that at times appears to be a civilization of waste.
The powerful do not believe they need to be resurrected because they think they are unshakable, like the Eiffel Tower made of iron and not flesh, soulless, cold as a railroad track.
Pain is a quality of being fragile.
In their own way, non-believers are frequent visitors to churches: they love them as intimate places, as special museums where they can admire art and music, but there they find themselves wondering about the miracle of that presence which, after two thousand years, still fills the whole earth and the lives of so many people.
I believe that the perception of being children of God, not in the sense of a statement of principle but of an experience that attests to their involvement, must be an extraordinary existential condition, capable of giving strength and removing many of the doubts and disappointments that the human condition activates and feeds.
All it takes is a hundred people willing to die as suicide bombers, strapping explosives to themselves, to render ridiculous the system of certainty and the certainty of power on this earth, of the potentates of this world.
Pain is the primary source of fragility because it breaks you and you feel shattered, unable to put the pieces you see in yourself back together; indeed, you are a pile of fragments, grains of sand that should come together and shape, sculpt a man.
Fear is not only linked to physical pain, to the feeling of no longer functioning, it also attaches itself to well-being, which has a mental and social dimension, to how one lives with one's personality within that environment made up of relationships.