Quotes by Spanish Authors - Page 4

Porque a volar no se aprende solo, pero a caer no se aprende nunca.
Ernesto Pérez Vallejo
Songs of the SoulOn a dark night,Inflamed by love-longing -O exquisite risk! -Undetected I slipped away.My house, at last, grown still.Secure in the darkness,I climbed the secret ladder in disguise -O exquisite risk! -Concealed by the darkness.My house, at last, grown still.That sweet night: a secret.Nobody saw me;I did not see a thing.No other light, no other guideThan the one burning in my heart.This light led the wayMore clearly than the risen sunTo where he was waiting for me- The one I knew so intimately -In a place where no one could find us.O night, that guided me!O night, sweeter than sunrise!O night, that joined lover with Beloved!Lover transformed in Beloved!Upon my blossoming breast,Which I cultivated just for him,He drifted into sleep,And while I caressed him,A cedar breeze touched the air.Wind blew down from the tower,Parting the locks of his hair.With his gentle handHe wounded my neckAnd all my senses were suspended.I lost myself. Forgot myself.I lay my face against the Beloved's face.Everything fell away and I left myself behind,Abandoning my caresAmong the lilies, forgotten.
San Juan de la Cruz
... helping each other to have a true gaze on reality, on the circumstances we are living in, is the first gesture of friendship we can offer each other for living like human beings in the presence of the needs of the world.
Julian Carron
He who sings scares away his woes.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
Maimonides
Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.
Baltasar Gracián
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ...
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
... it's a bad sign when someone drinks a lot and doesn't laugh.
Andrés Neuman
Quit while you’re ahead.All the best gamblers do.
Baltasar Gracián Y Morales
Sólo la fiebre y la poesía provocan visiones. / Sólo el amor y la memoria. / No estos caminos ni estas llanuras. / No estos laberintos.
Roberto Bolaño
Urgent necessity prompts many to do things.
Miguel de Cervantes
(...) 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
One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.
Baltasar Gracián
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
José Ortega y Gasset
Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Cervantes
A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.
Núria Añó
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
I can see that you’re down in the dumps, Unc. Shall we stop working and call Toni?”“And then what?”“I don’t know. But if it so happens that I’m more of your type . . . Would you like me to give you a blow job? That really does the trick when you’re feeling depressed.
Juan Marsé
When no one is left to tell what happened, family histories keep their secrets.
Carmen Posadas
‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.
Mario Vargas Llosa
¿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
For when the mind becomes bound to a passion of the wandering senses, this passion carries away man's wisdom, even as the wind drives a vessel on the waves.
Juan Mascaró
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!
Pablo Picasso
I thought my fireplace dead and stirred the ashes. I burned my fingers.
Antonio Machado
Business is still more often about whom you know, not what you know.
Alejandro Cremades
I have no sense of humor about losing
Rafael Nadal
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Miguel de Cervantes
All wars are full of stories that sound like fiction.
Javier Cercas
The owner of the Agut d'Avignon had the air of a 1920s dandy who had ruined himself with one mad night of gambling at baccarat and had only been saved by this restaurant, which he seemed to cherish as if it were his wife or a good fountain pen.
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
George Santayana
as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
[Showing the apartment to Tiziano ]MARLEEN WALKER: “Let me alert you that animals are banned in this building.”TIZIANO CONTI: “Am I breaking the law right now?
Merce Cardus
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. -Jose Bergamin, author (1895-1983)
Jose Bergamin
So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.
Roberto Bolaño
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Pablo Picasso
…And my heart openedlike a flower under sky,its petals of desire,its stamens of dreams…
Federico García Lorca
The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father whether heaven was crying, he couldn't bring himself to reply. Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not yet learned to stifle with words.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts.
Cervantes
It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar Gracián
Fear? There is no fear when you ride a MotoGP bike. If there is fear, you don't enjoy it. And if you don't enjoy it, you'd better stay at home.
Álvaro Bautista Arce
If you're signing up all the pretty girls in Alden, I want to join too," Max told Christy."We aren't taking men," she explained.He cocked his eyebrow. "What? We aren't sensitive enough for your kind of literature?"Christy turned to Annie and both broke into laughter. Annie leaned closer to Max and whispered, "We are talking cliterature here."His roguish smile was breathtaking. "Oh clits and chicks, I can handle that," he answered with a wink, his eyes glittering with laughter.
Elle Aycart
Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
Antonio Machado
I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth, and charm.
Roberto Bolaño
…falling in love is a state of mental misery which has a restricting, impoverishing, and paralyzing effect upon the development of our consciousness.
José Ortega y Gasset
They who lose today may win tomorrow.
Miguel de Cervantes
Ben invented mathematical theories that even he didn't manage to remember and wrote such bizarre tales of adventure that he ended up destroying them a week after they were finished, embarrassed at the thought that he had penned them.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Look at the longing, the anguish of a sad fossil world / that cannot find the accent of its first sob.
Federico García Lorca
Let us tear down the romantic trappings that have adorned passion. Let us cease believing that the measure of a man’s love lies in how stupid he has become or is willing to be.
José Ortega y Gasset
Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our lord may wish to work in you. it is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.
Ignatius of Loyola
Dine on little and sup on less.
Miguel de Cervantes
Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A confused labyrinth of smoky starsentangles my hopes,which are nearly faded
Federico García Lorca
There is no problem more difficult to solve than that created by ourselves.
Felix Alba-Juez
The more civilization progresses, the hollower it becomes and the easier to destroy it.
Empress Eugenie of France
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. The gesture characteristic of his tribe consists in looking at the world with eyes wide open in wonder. Everything in the world is strange and marvelous to well-open eyes.
José Ortega y Gasset
Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth.
Felix Alba-Juez
While he was waiting, leaning on the counter at a coffee place, he remembered the dream he'd had the night before about Antonio Jones, who had been dead for several years now. As before, he asked himself what Jones could have died of, and the one answer that occurred to him was old age. One day, walking down some street in Brooklyn, Antonio Jones had felt tired, sat down on the sidewalk, and a second later stopped existing.
Roberto Bolaño