Top 37 Amado Quotes
#1. The latest indication we have is that Amado is experiencing some delay in getting his visa. We understand that and we can accept that as a plausible reason for him not to be here.
Alexi Lalas
#2. I said there are certain flowers that wilt if you put them in a vase' (368).
Jorge Amado
#3. Christ was the first to be resurrected and never die again.
CARLOS H. AMADO
#4. Those who suffer great adversity and sorrow and go on to serve their fellowmen develop a great capacity to understand others. Like the prophets, they have acquired a higher understanding of the mind and will of Christ.
CARLOS H. AMADO
#5. Not even God who made us all can kill everybody at once. He kills people one by one, and the more he kills the more people are gonna be born and grow up and go on being born and growing up and mixing, and no son-of-a-bitch is gonna stop 'em!
Jorge Amado
#6. Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.
Jorge Amado
#7. The most evident sign of having found the Truth is the inner peace.
Amado Nervo
#8. Friends, we have a hero living among us.
Jorge Amado
#9. The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses.
Amado V. Hernandez
#10. But the streets still revealed, along with the progress and future greatness, some remnants of the recent past, of the time of bandits and bloodshed.
Jorge Amado
#11. I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people.
Jorge Amado
#13. Rock helps me communicate directly with the people because rock doesn't lie, and people are fed up with lying politicians.
Amado Boudou
#14. I believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. There's nothing I enjoy more than to observe Gabriela in the midst of a group of people. Do you know what she reminds me of? A fragrant rose in a bouquet of artificial flowers.
Jorge Amado
#15. The world is like that
incomprehensible and full of surprises .
Jorge Amado
#16. I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.
Jorge Amado
#17. Don't do anything to stop a woman from flying; let fate take its course.
Amado Nervo
#18. There are certain kinds of flowers-have you ever noticed?-that are beautiful and fragrant as long as they grow in the garden. But if you put them in vases, even silver vases, they wilt and die (272)
Jorge Amado
#19. Does truth lie in the everyday events, the daily incidents, in the pettiness and vulgarity most people's lives are compounded of, or does the truth have its abode in the dream it is given us to dream to flee our sad human condition?
Jorge Amado
#20. So long as there's a gap in your life, fill it with love.
Amado Nervo
#22. Love
the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.
Jorge Amado
#23. The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public ... What more natural than that he should write for those who, even if they do not pay him, at least understand him?
Amado Nervo
#24. Life was good, one had only to live it.
Jorge Amado
#25. He took her as though she were a toy, a toy or a closed rosebud which he brought into bloom each night of pleasure. [She] began to lose her timidity, giving herself over to that lascivious union, growing in response, turning into a heartsome, spirited lover.
Jorge Amado
#26. To tell you the Truth: It's better to give rather than to receive.
Amado Nervo
#27. The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.
Jorge Amado
#29. She was a glass snake. She wasn't poisonous but she sowed affliction just by going among men-mysteriously, like a miracle" (385)
Jorge Amado
#30. Because i see at the end of my rough way that i was the architect of my destiny..
Amado Nervo
#31. The whole street took part in the serenade to Flor, Flor leaning against her high window, all ruffles and lace, drenched in moonlight. Down below Vadinho, her gallant knight, with the red rose in his hand, so red it was almost black, the rose of her love.
Jorge Amado
#32. I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.
Jorge Amado
#33. In the medium or long term we'll all be dead. Let's deal with the problems at hand.
Amado Boudou
#34. Love bears initself its own fulfillness.
Amado Nervo
#35. It is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.
Jorge Amado
#36. Kindness, love, patience, understanding, and unity will increase as we serve, while intolerance, jealousy, envy, greed, and selfishness decrease or disappear. The more we give of ourselves, the more our capacity to serve, understand, and love will grow.
CARLOS H. AMADO
#37. Love is not to be proven or measured ... It exists, and that is enough.
Jorge Amado
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