Ludovico Einaudi Quotes

Never cease doubting. When the doubts stop it is because you have stopped journeying.

I'm interested in people who have lived, who are searching and questioning.

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.

I'm not sure who I am. That's why I keep saying I'm an adventurer that goes out.

A lot of my songs are just posing questions, because I'm on a journey to find the answers myself.

Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Uncertainty is a very good thing: it's the beginning of an investigation, and the investigation should never end.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

I will never stop questioning. I will never stop wanting more and discovering other things and wanting to do other things. That will always be a part of me, and it's something I've come to terms with.

When you go through life, when you go through different things, you take risks, you question yourself. I think everybody does, at some point in their life, question themselves.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself.

If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling.

As we wrestle with questions of identity, we imitate those actions we think best fill an ambiguity we have within ourselves. And that goes for everyone; no one is free from this condition.

I think, just philosophically, we're made to explore.

I do love the idea of people at a certain time in their lives when they're questioning, figuring out who to be. I find that interesting, but honestly, I think it's like that at every time in your life.

In philosophy you're never 100% sure. You're always undermining what you think you know. That's always been my philosophy and my intellectual ethos.

I really love that idea of the essay as an investigation. That's all anyone's life is.

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all... If that happens, you're doing it right.

I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that we ask, not the answers that we provide. It's all about the process of self-examination. I think that's what the best writing always contains.