Nuestra vida son los ríos
que van a dar en la mar,
que es el morir


Jorge Manrique

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Qué es la vida? Un frenesí.
¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión,
una sombra, una ficción, PEDRO CALDERóN DE LA BARCA
Todo el que disfruta cree que lo que importa del árbol es el fruto, cuando en realidad es la semill...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
El pueblo antiguo que deseaba tener una clara armonía moral en el mundo, ordenaba primero su vida n...
CONFUCIUS
La voluntad, el deseo de vivir, es tan fuerte en el animal como en el hombre. En el hombre es mayor ...
PíO BAROJA
Que yo sepa, lo único que no da resaca y
que disipa momentáneamente la muerte
—tambié...
MILENA BUSQUETS
Puedo decirte que el final de una vida es la suma del amor que fue vivido en ella; y estar en su fin...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los que mueren merecen la vida. ¿Puedes devolver...
GANDALS
Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los que mueren merecen la vida. ¿Puedes devolver...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Es que a veces la gente usa el pensamiento para no participar en la vida.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Porque no vivo ni en mi pasado ni en mi futuro. Tengo sólo el presente, y él es el que me interesa...
PAULO COELHO
¿Qué es estar vivo? [...] Estar vivo es … dar vida. Dar vida a los que te rodean, recuérdalo.
ALBERT ESPINOSA
la admiración por el Padre, símbolo de lo cerrado y agresivo, capaz de chingar y abrir, se transpa...
OCTAVIO PAZ
Que haya otros que estén en desacuerdo con nosotros (que no tomen en cuenta lo que hacemos sino lo ...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
De lo que hemos dicho se desprende que la tarea del poeta es describir no lo que ha
acontecido,...
ARISTOTLE
La labor más importante del ser humano es buscar la moralidad en sus actos. Es de lo que depende nu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Pero es más que sólo un arañazo. Es un puñetazo en el estómago y una bofetada en la cara. Es un...
JAY ASHER
Todos los esfuerzos--que no son pocos--hechos por el gobierno, en materia educativa, se diluyen en e...
RIUS
El primer paso, indispensable para lograr las cosas que desea obtener en la vida, es el siguiente: d...
JACK CANFIELD
Gollum merece la muerte. La merece, sin duda. Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Nuestra muerte ilumina nuestra vida. Si nuestra muerte carece de sentido, tampoco lo tuvo nuestra vi...
OCTAVIO PAZ
Tu casa, al ser el lugar donde lees, puede decirnos cuál es el lugar que los libros tienen en tu vi...
ITALO CALVINO
—¿Nunca has parado el mundo?
—¿Qué es parar el mundo?
—Parar el mundo es decidir ...
ALBERT ESPINOSA
Para que los pasos no me lloren,
para que las palabras no me sangren:
canto.

OTTO RENé CASTILLO
Si es cierto que las casas se impregnan de la vida transcurrida entre sus paredes, en el caso de los...
ISABEL ALLENDE
Pero el sufrimiento pasa. Si la vida, que es todo, pasa, por qué no han de pasar el amor y el dolor...
FERNANDO SAVATER
Así, la suerte de la mujer y la del socialismo están íntimamente ligadas, como se ve también
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Es la hora, amor mío, de apartar esta rosa sombría, cerrar las estrellas, enterrar la ceniza en la...
PABLO NERUDA
La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v...
PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA''
Los Padres son dueños de todo y la gente no posée nada; es la obra maestra de la razón y la justi...
VOLTAIRE
La felicidad la pueden experimentar en toda su intensidad sólo los que han vivido grandes altibajos...
FRANCESC MIRALLES
Los jóvenes entendemos que en el siglo 21 es inaceptable que familias enteras tengan que resignarse...
RAFAEL OLIVERO
La vida era como una canción.
En el comienzo, hay misterio, al final, hay una confirmación, ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Creo que en la vida todo es posible.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
el desesperado no querer morir, es el camino más seguro para la muerte eterna, en tanto que saber m...
HERMANN HESSE
Había una vez un hombre bajito y extraño que decidió tres cosas importantes acerca de su vida: MARKUS ZUSAK ¿Sabes cuál es la lección más importante d ela historia? Que solo la escriben los vencedores. Es...
ANTHONY DOERR
Los amantes y los locos tienen desbocado el seso, y son dados a forjar fantasías que abarcan más d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
En tu abrazo yo abrazo lo que existe,
la arena, el tiempo, el árbol de la lluvia,
y todo ...
PABLO NERUDA
Y la belleza es una forma de genio más elevada, en verdad, que el genio; no tiene necesidad de expl...
OSCAR WILDE
Esa pareja equilibrada no es una utopía ; existen tales parejas, a veces incluso en el mismo marco ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
«¿Y mientras tanto?», preguntó el marqués.
«Mientras tanto», dijo Abrenuncio, «tóquenl...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Llega un momento en que nos damos cuenta de que nuestros padres no se pueden salvar a ellos mismos n...
JOHN GREEN
La memoria es como libro en el cual se escribe toda nuestra vida. Algunas veces deseamos cerrarlo y ...
AUDREY DRY
En la vida no todo es seguridad. Es ser capaces de recoger los pedazos después de que todo haya pas...
SHERRILYN KENYON
hay muchas cosas que le dan sentido a la vida en las que podríamos encontrar la felicidad que tanto...
ED HERNANDEZ
- ¿Qué pasa? ¿Por qué te ríes?
- Porque la vida es una bastarda.
- Bien, entonces sup...
LAINI TAYLOR
Ponerse un huipil era toda una iniciación, al hacerlo uno repetía diariamente el viaje interior ha...
LAURA ESQUIVEL
Pero en los casos en los que no ha sido costumbre sino el más íntimo impulso el que nos ha llevado...
HERMANN HESSE
He aprendido algo sobre mi corazón.
Puede romperse.
Puede rasgarse.
Puede endurecers...
COLLEN HOOVER
Le dolía que los hechos pasasen con esta facilidad a ser recuerdos; notar la sensación de que nada...
MIGUEL DELIBES
Y escribir cada día,
ganar la lotería
de al menos una frase
que nadie ha dicho nunc...
HéCTOR ABAD FACIOLINCE
Para mí, el azul mediterráneo ya no es bonito. La transparencia de sus aguas, tan valorada por los...
JONATHAN FRANZEN
Otra vez tambores de guerra, y son siempre los mismos quienes los percuten. Decía Roger Garaudy que...
FERNANDO SáNCHEZ DRAGó
-"Me alegro de que hayas cedido. Me alegro de que tu autocontrol no sea tan fueste como el mio."
RICHELLE MEAD
- ¿Sabe que es lo peor de todo?
Lo miré. No supe qué decir.
- Que la voy olvidando.
EDUARDO SACHERI
¿No sabéis quiénes son los críticos? Aquellos que no han tenido éxito en la literatura y en el ...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Porque, en la vida real, el amor necesita ser posible. Incluso aunque no haya una retribución inmed...
PAULO COELHO
Siempre hay un momento, justo antes de empezar a leer, en el que el corazón me da un vuelco y me pr...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
El peor tipo de llanto no era el tipo que todos podían ver, los lamentos en las esquinas, el desgar...
KATIE MCGARRY
- La gente debería tenerle miedo a Ursula Monkton - afirmé
- Quizá. Y a qué crees que le ti...
NEIL GAIMAN
Yo no me callo

Perdone el ciudadano esperanzado
mi recuerdo de acciones miserables,<...
PABLO NERUDA
Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO
Es la imagen más pura de la mujer amada: la que aún no conocemos totalmente, la que se revelará, ...
HENRI BARBUSSE
En los cuentos infantiles, las princesas besan a los sapos, que se transforman en príncipes. En la ...
PAULO COELHO
Cuando vas por las calles
nadie te reconoce.
Nadie ve la corona de cristal, nadie mira
PABLO NERUDA
No hay tiempo para el presente. Vamos del
pasado al futuro, que nuevamente se vuelve pasado: ¡...
FRANCESC MIRALLES
—Te diré a lo que es real. Real es que yo estaba en la cárcel durante el último año, quedándo...
SIMONE ELKELES
Lolita, luz de mi vida, fuego de mis entrañas. Pecado mío, alma mía. Lo-li-ta: la punta de la len...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
— ¿Cómo puedes romper una promesa y quedarte tan campante?
— A veces la gente no es consc...
JOHN GREEN
El libro es jardín que se puede llevar en el bolsillo, nave espacial que viaja en la mochila, arma ...
BENITO TAIBO
La curiosidad es el nombre despectivo que los hombres dan a la sed de conocimiento que tienen las mu...
MICHEL FABER
Y puedo ver lo que es el supersueño -joyas, pieles, perfumes, batas de seda, anillos, cuadros, auto...
EDMUNDO VALADéS
Esta amistad nos hace más fuertes, es más fácil y seguro ir por la vida si tienes dónde agarrart...
SíLVIA SOLER
Yo tengo miedo. Tengo miedo de una cosa, de que en nuestra vida el miedo ocupe el lugar del amor.
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH
El dolor, cuando se instala en nuestro cuerpo, no quiere irse. Sobretodo si fue forjado en una relac...
LEO BATIC
Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero cuánto la quise.
Mi voz buscaba el viento para tocar su oíd...
PABLO NERUDA
El problema es que se recuerda esta lista con una intensidad tal que su mismo ardor confunde los hec...
THOMAS KENEALLY
Tuve la súbita intuición de que nada en la vida es tan simple como imaginamos.
ARTHUR GOLDEN
Desde temprana edad eran conscientes del escaso valor que el mundo daba a los libros, de manera que ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
Ya en el escaparate de la librería localizaste la portada con el título que buscabas. Siguiendo es...
ITALO CALVINO
–Watanabe, ¿puedes explicarme la diferencia entre el condicional simple y el condicional perfecto...
HARUKI MURAKAMI
En la amistad como en el amor se es más feliz por las cosas que se ignoran que por las que se saben...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Pero el amor puede transformar en belleza y dignidad cosas bajas y viles, porque no ve con los ojos,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Creo que la idea es que cada hombre o mujer tiene que vivir su propia vida y luego decidir si la com...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
pero en la tierra es más feliz la rosa arrancada que aquella que ajándose en el virgen rosal, crec...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
El problema es que los humanos tienen el don de elegir precisamente las cosas que son peores para el...
J.K. ROWLING
Es la posibilidad lo que me mantiene con esperanza, no la garantía; es como una apuesta que me hago...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Cuando yo muera quiero tus manos en mi ojos:
quiero la luz y el trigo de tus manos amadas
...
PABLO NERUDA
Y a pesar de que quizá alguien me llame loco o soñador, creo que en la vida todo es posible.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Si hay algo que no tolero es a esa gente que, cansada de golpear a las puertas del sistema sin logra...
RODRIGO FRESáN
en realidad no importa que no esperemos nada de la vida, sino que la vida espere algo de nosotros. D...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL
Sólo en tu corazón está "tu propio bien".
Muchos de los consejeros son fanáticos del auto-e...
VIOLET FLORENCE MARTIN
-A pesar de nuestros pobres esfuerzos, el limbo debe estar lleno de chinos, ¿no cree usted?
-Y...
CAMILO JOSé CELA
Yo te he nombrado reina.
Hay más altas que tú, más altas.
Hay más puras que tú, más ...
PABLO NERUDA
y la fama y el amor
nada más que un truco para atenuar nuestra herida.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Bea dice que el arte de leer se está muriendo lentamente, que es un ritual íntimo, que un libro es...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN
Yo te he nombrado reina.
Hay más altas que tú, más altas.
Hay más puras que tú, más ...
PABLO NERUDA
A medida que transcurría el tiempo, se afirmaba en la certeza de que el mundo y la vida eran más f...
ARTURO PéREZ-REVERTE
Por favor, no te enfades conmigo los días en que no te reconozca. Los dos sabemos que llegarán. Pi...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Sólo mediante la información que poseemos, incorporada a nuestro organismo, sean los esquemas inna...
JOSé ANTONIO MARINA

More Jorge Manrique

The only secret to food combination is a balance of protein, carbs and fat - they all play a key rol...
JORGE CRUISE
I used to work at this store called Music Plus in San Clemente, California, when I was growing up, a...
JORGE GARCIA
You turn on the TV, and you see very bland interviews. Journalists in the United States are very coz...
JORGE RAMOS
The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci used to say that for her, an interview was like a war. I get t...
JORGE RAMOS
I believe in the magic of preparation. You can make just about any foods taste wonderful by adding h...
JORGE CRUISE
There is only one Mariano Rivera. There won't be another person who will come along and do what ...
JORGE POSADA
When it comes to racism, discrimination, corruption, public lies, dictatorships, and human rights, y...
JORGE RAMOS
Trump's characterization of undocumented immigrants is, of course, absurd. Not only do the facts...
JORGE RAMOS
A small pepperoni pizza on a tortilla is healthier than salmon teriyaki with rice and carrots.
JORGE CRUISE
We need not only one Cesar Chavez; we need a thousand Cesar Chavezes.
JORGE RAMOS
This was a tough group against two World Cup qualifiers and Congo, which is a strong team.
ARTUR JORGE
We still have a third match to come and it is important that we keep going and play well.
ARTUR JORGE
We hope to win the cup, it would be very important for us.
ARTUR JORGE
This was a tough group against two World Cup qualifiers and Congo, which is a strong team. The game ...
ARTUR JORGE
We saw a good match. Angola had a good first half but we played very well in the second.
ARTUR JORGE
Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in thei...
JORGE GARCIA
When you don't manage your life well, you become angry and frustrated as things don't go as ...
JORGE BUCAY
Hate is contagious. A few seconds after Donald Trump has told me something hateful, somebody else re...
JORGE RAMOS
When journalists forget that our job is to question and annoy those in power, there can be huge cons...
JORGE RAMOS
I'm not seeing tough questions asked on American television. I'm not seeing those correspond...
JORGE RAMOS
But all (underclassmen) have a little chip on their shoulder. I don't know what happens in middle sc...
JORGE AMAYA
He was real rebellious the first half of the season. He didn't want to listen to us. He had his own ...
JORGE AMAYA
He was the one that got us started. That was the key to bringing us back. That started the momentum....
JORGE AMAYA
We had two guys that transferred in that I'm confident will go to state. And, they were so anxious t...
JORGE AMAYA
He fought hard. But then I thought he had a good chance at winning this match; I didn't think it was...
JORGE AMAYA
I haven't seen a young arm like that since Mariano, I would say. Prospect wise, he should get the un...
JORGE POSADA
This guy's got a big heart; he doesn't shy away. As a player, he's more than you see.
JORGE POSADA
When he's good now, I know what he needs to do. At the beginning of the season last year, I didn't k...
JORGE POSADA
I like what he's got. I like everything he's got. He belongs, [even] at such a young age. Everything...
JORGE POSADA
Everything for him is easier now the second time around. You've seen it with everybody that comes he...
JORGE POSADA
He was a completely different hitter after that meeting. He had a purpose, a go-to-war attitude. It ...
JORGE POSADA
There's a huge migration of eyeballs from television screens to cellphones, tablets, and laptops...
JORGE RAMOS
It's as if Fox clubbed a beehive, but didn't think about how he would protect himself from the angry...
JORGE CHABAT
Neutrality is for referees in a football game. You have to take a stand. The really, really good jou...
JORGE RAMOS
Bad people are intriguing!
JORGE GARCIA
I'm not against working out. It's just not effective for weight loss. I like strength traini...
JORGE CRUISE
Young Latinos have been telling me that they want to register to vote because of Donald Trump. Not b...
JORGE RAMOS
Immigration is the issue that tells us who is with us and who is against us; there's no question...
JORGE RAMOS
I go out on publicity tours for my books, and, you know, Latinos, they bring everybody in the family...
JORGE RAMOS
I didn't know I was close until Rick Cerone (public relations) told me in Tampa earlier this week. W...
JORGE POSADA
There might be a misunderstanding in the market regarding Alfa's deal with Ford, which is in fact a ...
JORGE BERISTAIN
От однообразия устаешь, даже если это счастье. («Дона Ф�...
JORGE AMADO
En las plantaciones, los trabajadores casan hasta con un pedazo de palo si viste polleras. Para tene...
JORGE AMADO
I'm no Rambo or Terminator. I'm a Karate Kid who fights to defend family and neighbors. But the Unit...
JORGE PEREZ
There used to be a tradition within the Hispanic community that, regardless of your political party,...
JORGE RAMOS
We in the Hispanic community are truly tired of both the Democrats and the Republicans promising all...
JORGE RAMOS
The whole game was a grinder, we did a lot of things well. It doesn't mean anything if we don't go o...
JORGE POSADA
We might go out there (to an intersection) every September, and for the other guys it might be Febru...
JORGE CERVANTES
Everything pales when compared to this. These demonstrations are historic because they surpass in si...
JORGE MARISCAL
It's not an easy endeavor by any means.
JORGE CAMEJO
I'm happy when they told me I had been traded to the Mets. I think this team has a lot of opportunit...
JORGE JULIO
The award bestowed upon Richards-Zeta is in recognition of proving to be a leader in the industry an...
JORGE MORENO
Latinos are very sensitive to different accents. I sort of lost my Mexican accent, and that's what t...
JORGE RAMOS
Capturing the moment matters most when you capture the heart of the moment.
ANGELO JORGE
Truth hurts but rubbing it further would make me bleed from too much reality. It might kill me.
ANGELO JORGE
You get the idea of the stratification of walls that creates the impression of an excavated site, of...
JORGE SILVETTI
Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can app...
JORGE RAMOS
Win or lose Friday, he's shown that nothing really fazes him. That's why he's in the rotation. The w...
JORGE POSADA
Often [our non-native Spanish-speaking listeners] are nervous about being on the air, worried that t...
JORGE RAMOS
We still have a long way to go, but the commitment is there.
JORGE RAMOS
Our program's emphasis is on Latin American, especially Mexican, soccer,
JORGE RAMOS
When you look at a plate of food it has to be equally appealing to the ownership as to the customer,...
JORGE RAMOS
The restaurant business is definitely exciting, with lots of energy that goes way beyond what's on t...
JORGE RAMOS
What is surprising, ... how little attention [the memo] has received in some of the most important n...
JORGE RAMOS
L'allegria va conservata nello champagne; mentre la cachaça tutt’al più consola dalle disgrazie,...
JORGE AMADO
I didn't want to be an immigrant. I was forced to be an immigrant. Alexis de Tocqueville, the French...
JORGE RAMOS
It looked ugly right in the middle of the downtown. It scared some people, it bothered some, but def...
JORGE ROCHAC
Ivan for me is the best catcher in the big leagues and there is no comparison with anybody. He has a...
JORGE POSADA
The whole game was a grinder, we did a lot of things well.
JORGE POSADA
"Fairy tales and kingdoms become a land of personal escape. Yes, reality bites but as we grow old, w...
ANGELO JORGE
"A fairy tale is a land of personal escape. Reality bites but we are forced to bite back or else we ...
ANGELO JORGE
I'm a hopeless romantic. I know what romance is but I get hopeless when you get near me. Please, let...
ANGELO JORGE
Today we present two fundamental elements in the birth of this soccer club, both on and off the fiel...
JORGE VERGARA
You can always be a better person, a better version of you, focus on that you do that makes you feel...
JORGE GW
I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Wa...
JORGE RAMOS
Win or lose Friday, he's shown that nothing really fazes him, ... That's why he's in the rotation. T...
JORGE POSADA
The multinationals want legal safeguards, but there can be legal safeguards only when a contract is ...
JORGE ALVARADO
It has been a beautiful thing to see, the flags draped on balconies and cars, faces painted, the red...
JORGE SAMPAIO
It took a terrible succession of wars and revolutions, namely the total wars and the totalitarian re...
JORGE SAMPAIO
should reflect with courage and ambition a growing demand regarding this issue by the international ...
JORGE SAMPAIO
Remember that setbacks are only challenges in disguise. Look at them as lessons . . . don't waste ti...
JORGE CRUISE
this is mathematical speculation by a bunch of overcaffeinated theorists.
JORGE CHAM
Mass is the property of objects that makes them resist changes in velocity. Simply
JORGE CHAM
My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism bec...
JORGE RAMOS
Coitadinhos ou coitadinhas não devem ir a campo de batalha. Só atrapalham. Alguém gostaria de ter...
JORGE KISHIKAWA
You wouldn't expect ABC or any of the mainstream networks to take a position on immigration, hea...
JORGE RAMOS
The future of TV is not on TV. It's on the smaller screens we are all using in front of the tele...
JORGE RAMOS
If someone has children, the first thing they want is for them to be happy, and then become someone ...
JORGE BUCAY
I remember 101 was the fastest. It was in Baltimore.
JORGE JULIO
He made one mistake and that was it — he was outstanding.
JORGE POSADA
Pitching is so important. You don't get anywhere without pitching. The better we pitch, the better w...
JORGE POSADA
Pitching is so important. You don't get anywhere without pitching. The better we pitch, obviously th...
JORGE POSADA
Let's just enjoy this one right now,
JORGE POSADA
We don't want to carry over bad games, bring them with us. We really wanted it. It's a good example ...
JORGE POSADA
The fact that Vicente Fox not only won by a wide margin in a clean election, but also represents ano...
JORGE CHABAT
The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.
JORGE AMADO
They were mistaken if they thought he did not kill her because he loved her too much. At that moment...
JORGE AMADO
Yes, Latinos dream more. When you live in poverty, when your president is imposed upon you, when the...
JORGE RAMOS
The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .
JORGE AMADO
In order to fly you have to create space in the open air so that your wings can really spread out. I...
JORGE BUCAY
A obrigação de se levantar contra os opressores é do povo. Em toda a história, sempre foi. E o c...
JORGE LOURENçO
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in w...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of th...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will mo...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also ...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A bo...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic ide...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Not a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, th...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know dee...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships,...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleas...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five or...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
The original is unfaithful to the translation.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in wh...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Life itself is a quotation.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A boo...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of ...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
The central problem of novel-writing is causality.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
He pensado muchas veces en los extraños movimientos de la afectividad. Octavio, si en verdad no que...
JORGE ARTURO OJEDA
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones ...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says,...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
We've been trying to open the gates of communication between Havana and Miami through art, which...
JORGE M. PEREZ
كمن يعود من فردوس مفقود عدتُ من عناقك.‏
كمن يعود من �...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I h...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
«Albrecht discorre sobre este jogo popular [petanca]. [...] Devíamos ser capazes, todos de aprende...
MANUEL JORGE MARMELO
In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays of...
JORGE PAULO LEMANN
There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose lim...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the riv...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventua...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and ...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insig...
JORGE PAULO LEMANN
This incident shows the aggressiveness and lack of scruples of these smugglers who put the lives of ...
COL. JORGE SAMPER
My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, a...
JORGE M. PEREZ
The drug trafficking through Cuba, especially by sea, has been controlled. The traffickers have gone...
COL. JORGE SAMPER
The worlds of art, philanthropy, and business are absolutely intertwined.
JORGE M. PEREZ
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Little did they suspect that the years would end by wearing away the disharmony.
Little did the...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Si el honor y la sabiduría y la felicidad no son para mí, que sean para otros. Que el cielo exista...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation."

[As...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
A necessary monster.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
If they opened things up and I could build a luxury condominium in Vedado, I would sell them in two ...
JORGE M. PEREZ
Personally, what I would like the most is to work on a project that would aid the historic rehabilit...
JORGE M. PEREZ
I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth ...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Every writer ''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it wil...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of ...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Death (or its allusion) makes men precious and pathetic. They are moving because of their phantom co...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
The embargo doesn't affect the United States, not even minimally; all of Cuba's economy is s...
JORGE M. PEREZ
Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
All they want to do is be left alone, sun and swim. At this point, all we have is crocodiles being c...
OFFICER JORGE PINO
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Everything Is Illuminated
JORGE LUIS BORGES
As you can imagine, she's a nervous wreak, I'm sure.
SGT. JORGE DELAHOZ
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
JORGE LUIS BORGES
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may m...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, th...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, w...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are ...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with unc...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing ...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Paradise will be a kind of library
JORGE LUIS BORGES
A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has bee...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may c...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who h...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
...notai che le armature di ferro di plaza Costituciòn avevno cambiato non so quale pubblicità di ...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
...vidi i resti atroci di quanto deliziosamente era stata Beatriz Viterbo, vidi la circolazione del ...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertig...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others.
I refer not to Evil, whose limited rea...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number o...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Ogni linguaggio è un alfabeto di simboli il cui uso presuppone un passato che gli interlocutori con...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and s...
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Man's memory shapes
Its own Eden within
JORGE LUIS BORGES