Quotes from Eleonora Duse

I did not use paint, I made myself up morally.

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

When we grow old, there can only be one regret — not to have given enough of ourselves.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!

Work means so many things! So many! Among other things work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.