Quotes by Spanish Authors - Page 19

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.
Roberto Bolaño
Un paraíso conseguido sin esfuerzo no entusiasma al creyente.
Pío Baroja
Todo lo que puedo hacer es esperar, dejar pasar los días. El tiempo no lo cura todo, esa es una mentira que se repiten los que están desesperados por olvidar, pero sí consigue poner en espera los sentimientos y las emociones. Apartas los recuerdos y los recluyes en una zona de tu mente a la que, con suerte, solo accedes en esas noches en las que te cuesta conciliar el sueño. Al final, logras vivir y seguir adelante aunque sepas que hay una parte de ti que malvive como puede. Haces balance y llegas a la conclusión de que eres más o menos feliz, y procuras no mirar atrás.
Victoria Vilchez
Me pregunté si no habría personas destinadas a encontrarse fuera cuáles fueran las decisiones que tomasen, si esa leyenda que hablaba de un hilo rojo que conecta a dos almas gemelas no sería verdad.
Victoria Vilchez
Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better
Roberto Bolaño
One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Ahora sabemos que las cosas buenas ocurren, que los sueños a veces se cumplen, que los deseos pueden hacerse realidad y de nosotros depende no olvidarlo para poder meterle un gol a esa portería invisible del día a día.
Eugenia Rico
(...) La felicidad es tener un corazón capaz de amar. Es saber que has sido importante para alguien... Que de algún modo, en algún momento, has marcado la diferencia. Y la muerte no es nada en comparación con esos momentos.
José Antonio Cotrina
…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.
Roberto Bolaño
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
George Santayana
One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.
Baltasar Gracián
Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.
George Santayana
A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.
St. Dominic
However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us; nor do we need wings to go in search of him, but merely to seek solitude and contemplate him within ourselves, without being surprised to find such a good Guest there.
St John of the Cross
Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.
St. Teresa Of Avila
«No es que yo sea bueno, es que los demás son tan malos que la comparación se revela imposible.»
Salvador Dalí
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
Enrique Jardiel Poncela
You Who'd be Wise" from "Ben Mishle" written sometime between 1013 and 1050 C.E.You who'd be wiseshould inquire into the nature of justice and evilfrom your teachers,seekers like yourself, and the studentswho question your answer.
Shmuel HaNagid
The worship of power is an old religion.
George Santayana
The dead to the grave, the living to the loaf.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful.
Baltasar Gracián
Fools, their wisdom weak,are their own enemiesas they go through life,doing evilthat bearsbitter fruit.
Juan Mascaró
La rutina no está tanto en las cosas como en nuestra incapacidad para crear a cada momento un vínculo original con ellas, en nuestra tendencia a leerlas por la falsilla de lo rutinario, de lo ya aprendido. Hay que seguir dejando siempre abierta la puerta al cuarto de jugar.
Carmen Martín Gaite
Be first the master of yourself
Baltasar Gracián
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracián
It takes a very long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
Baltasar Gracián
...torna-se difícil acreditar Nele quando o céu e a terra podem chegar a se explicar por si mesmos.
Rafael Ábalos
Ninguna cosa es más propia a Dios que el amor, ni al amor hay cosa más natural que volver al que ama en las condiciones e ingenio del que es amado.
Luis de León
The wise men posit questions to which they may not always find immediate answers, but through their reflections God stimulates man in his search for truth - which in the last analysis is a search for God himself.
University of Navarra
If there is a god, or hundreds of them, I hope they will forgive me for the harm I may have inflicted on you by telling you exactly what happened.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
I don't belive in God. I believe in...Al Pacino.
Javier Bardem
God is here. This truth should fill our lives, and every Christmas should be for us a new and special meeting with God, when we allow his light and grace to enter deep into our soul.
Josemaría Escrivá
Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.
Miguel de Unamuno
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso
¿Por qué? ¿Acaso crees que los demonios no podemos sentir afecto? Somos seres racionales y experimentamos emociones complejas. Si los ángeles pueden matar, ¿por qué nosotrso no podemos amar?
Laura Gallego García
Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte. (Sempere)
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
It’s madness to see life as it is and not how it should be.
Knight of the woeful countenance
Quid quo pro - you cant get something from nothing .
Carlous Ruiz Zafon
The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ...
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The dead never go to their own funeral.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Even today, I've no idea what the truth is, or what I did with it.
Luis Buñuel
Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moran or a lout, howeverm doesn't stop to think or reason.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.
Baltasar Gracián
The truths that matter most to us come always half spoken.
Baltasar Gracián
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
Maimonides
In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You.
San Juan de la Cruz
Facts are the enemy of truth.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right
Miguel de Unamuno
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
Pablo Picasso
There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to educate without distorting the essence of the scientific knowledge attained by humanity. The future of our society depends upon this premise.
Felix Alba-Juez
I prefer for 'my world' to have the highest certification of being a faithful representation of the exterior world.
Jesus Zamora Bonilla