Life – or la vita in Italian – is a rollercoaster filled with incredible highs and devastating lows. Unfortunately there isn’t a single handbook to help us navigate all of life’s ups and downs but that is exactly what makes it such an adventure!
Below you’ll find a collection of twenty of our favourite inspirational, humorous and interesting life quotes in the Italian language, all of which have been translated into English. We hope you enjoy them! 🙂
1. La vita è fatta così.
English translation: Such is life.
2. Così è la vita.
English translation: That’s the way life is. / That’s life.
3. La vita è bella.
English translation: Life is beautiful.
4. Forza e coraggio che la vita è un passaggio.
English translation: Strength and courage because life is a passage.
5. Finché c’è vita c’è speranza.
English translation: As long as there is life, there is hope.
6. Sin che si vive, s’impara sempre.
English translation: As long as you live, you always learn.
7. La vita è fatta a scale: c’è chi scende e c’è chi sale.
English translation: Life is made up of stairs: there are those who go down and those who go up.
8. Tutto arriva nella vita, presto o tardi.
English translation: Everything comes in life, sooner or later.
9. Chi vive vede molto, chi viaggia vede di più.
English translation: Those who live see a lot, those who travel see more.
10. La vita è seminata di spine più che di fiori.
English translation: Life is sown with thorns rather than flowers.
11. La vita è già mezzo trascorsa anziché si sappia che cosa sia.
English translation: Life is already half spent before we know what it is.
12. Se vuoi vivere cent’anni senza pene, prendi il mondo come viene.
English translation: If you want to live a hundred years without pain, take the world as it comes.
13. Chi beve vino campa cent’anni.
English translation: He who drinks wine lives one hundred years.
14. La vita è breve e l’arte è lunga.
English translation: Life is short and art is long.
15. Anno nuovo, vita nuova.
English translation: New year, new life.
16. Chi muore giace e chi vive si dà pace.
English translation: Those who die lie and those who live give themselves peace.
17. Val più una messa in vita che cento in morte.
English translation: One Mass is worth more in life than one hundred in death.
18. Finché c’è fiato, c’è vita.
English translation: As long as there is breath, there is life.
19. Vivi e lascia vivere.
English translation: Live and let live.
20. Bisogna mangiare per vivere e non vivere per mangiare.
English translation: One must eat to live and not live to eat.
