# Quote — Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Leopardi

> Everything is evil. I mean, everything that is, is wicked; every existing thing is an evil; everything exists for a wicked end. Existence is a wickedness and is ordained for wickedness. Evil is the end, the final purpose, of the universe...The only good is nonbeing; the only really good thing is the thing that is not, things that are not things; all things are bad.

- Author: [Giacomo Leopardi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/giacomo-leopardi.md)
- Book: [Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Leopardi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/giacomo-leopardi/zibaldone-the-notebooks-of-leopardi.md)
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> Pleasure is always in the past or in the future, never in the present.

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> Those innumerable and immense questions about time and space, argued over from the beginnings of metaphysics onward, by metaphysicians of every century, are none other than wars of words, caused by misunderstandings, and imprecision of thought, and limited ability to understand our mind, which is the only place where time and space, like many other abstract things, exist independently and for themselves, and are something.

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> No one can truthfully boast or say in anger: I cannot be unhappier than I am.

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