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.
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.
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.
Heather Broster is a graduate with honours in linguistics from the University of Western Ontario. She is an aspiring polyglot, proficient in English and Italian, as well as Japanese, Welsh, and French to varying degrees of fluency. Originally from Toronto, Heather has resided in various countries, notably Italy for a period of six years. Her primary focus lies in the fields of language acquisition, education, and bilingual instruction.
