Ernesto Sabato Quotes Sayings

#1. I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#2. You want to know why you've never been able to make me cry?" I asked. "Because you're trying to tear down someone who's already hit rock bottom. You can't make me feel any worse about myself than I already do.

Kelly Oram

#3. We must help each other to be present and compassionate. Remember that we have no idea what the person next to us is going through; compassion is the only choice.

Alysia Reiner

#4. Without enough wilderness America will change. Democracy, with its myriad personalities and increasing sophistication, must be fibred and vitalized by regular contact with outdoor growths - animals, trees, sun warmth and free skies - or it will dwindle and pale.

Walt Whitman

#5. You came and I was crazy for you
and you cooled my mind that burned with longing

Sappho

#6. If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.

Pablo Picasso

#7. Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.

Mikhail Tal

#8. Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.

George Orwell

#9. Don't worry about what people say.

Billie Jean King

#10. Above all, we must understand that in leaving the toxic ways of the present we are healing ourselves, our places, and our planet. We rebel not as a last act of desperation but as a first act of creation.

Sam Smith

#11. I try to look at life carefully and reproduce life the way life is. It's a question of looking carefully at how it is. In life, you don't have total happiness. People always say that. But you don't have total sadness either, no matter what situation you are living in.

Marjane Satrapi

#12. I have often repented of speech but hardly ever of silence.

C.S. Lewis

#13. I don't buy art in order to leave a mark or to be remembered; clutching at immortality is of zero interest to anyone sane.

Charles Saatchi

#14. I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth - and get loads of therapy - to have that?

Noorilhuda