Out of the fire of love come ashes. Even the greatest love eventually fizzles out.
Read more Alfredo QuotesFrom: Cinema Paradiso
Alfredo: The bigger the man, the deeper the footprint. And if he loves, he suffers, knowing it's a dead-end street.Salvatore: That's nice, what you just said. But sad.Alfredo: I didn't say it. It was John Wayne in "The Shepard of the Hills."Salvatore: You old pirate!
Alfredo: Living here day by day, you think it's the center of the world. You believe nothing will ever change. Then you leave: a year, two years. When you come back, everything's changed. The thread's broken. What you came to find isn't there. What was yours is gone. You have to go away for a long time... many years... before you can come back and find your people. The land where you were born. But now, no. It's not possible. Right now you're blinder than I am.Salvatore: Who said that? Gary Cooper? James Stewart? Henry Fonda? Eh?Alfredo: No, Toto. Nobody said it. This time it's all me. Life isn't like in the movies. Life... is much harder.
Alfredo: What's she like?Salvatore: She's very nice. My age, slim, long brown hair. Big blue eyes, honest and direct. A little beauty mark on her lip. Very small. You only see it up close. When she smiles, you feel like - I don't know.Alfredo: Love. Love. I know how it is. The blue-eyed ones are the worst. No matter what you do, they'll never be your friends. There's nothing you can do.