Juan Gabriel Quotes

#1. The kind of sadness we tolerate because it appears at happy moments

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#2. I don't believe in competing, because there's room for everyone. You have to compete with yourself, because your duty to grow as a human being and keeping your humility is much more important than your music career. You can get money, women, travels, but all that's an illusion.

Juan Gabriel

#3. The world's a scary place these days. Grandpa,, you've seen worse things, haven't you? Please tell me the world has always been like this.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#4. There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#5. What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#6. In the darkness of the bedroom I thought of that, although thinking in the darkness is not advisable: things seem bigger or more serious in the darkness, illnesses more destructive, the presence of evil closer, indifference more intense, solitude more profound.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#7. The gradual and imperceptible subsidence of the waters, that's the alluvium. Thus am I gradually left alone, thus have I been left alone.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#8. The nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#9. The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained

Albert Allen Bartlett

#10. Her face was like a party that everyone had left.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#11. Hi. I haven't insulted you yet, have I?

Tucker Max

#12. They talked of intentions and projects, convinced, as only new lovers can be, that saying what you wanted was the same as saying who you are.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#13. The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#14. I have had my fill of words and tearful farewells,

Gannicus

#15. Where does the past go when it changes?

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#16. Sometimes I think," he told me the only time we talked somewhat seriously, "I've never looked anyone in the eye." It was an exaggeration, but I'm not sure the man was exaggerating on purpose. After all, he wasn't looking me in the eye when he said those words.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#17. I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.

Chigozie Obioma

#18. I read somewhere that a man should tell the story of his life at the age of forty, and this deadline is fast approaching as I write these lines, only a few short weeks remain before this ominous birthday arrives.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#19. Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

Confucius

#20. On Juan Rulfo:
His published writings add up to no more than 300 pages, but they are just as many, and I believe just as enduring, as those that we know of Sophocles.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#21. You should always go where there is a 'you-shaped' hole in the world.

Lena Dunham

#22. Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.

Juan Gabriel

#23. No you can't." "I can." "You can't." "Can!" "Can't!" An uncomfortable pause. Then Tom said: "What's your name?" "'Tisn't any of your business, maybe." "Well I 'low I'll MAKE it my business." "Well why don't you?" "If you say much, I will." "Much - much - MUCH. There now.

Mark Twain

#24. Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.

Aretha Franklin

#25. When I was 15, all I knew was that I had to be somebody and that I could be somebody. So I exploited the only thing I knew, which was singing and songwriting.

Juan Gabriel

#26. Hearts can't be broken because they're made of marzipan.

Kerstin Gier

#27. A person doesn't have to do anything but die.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#28. Remembering tires a person out. this is something they don't teach us. Exercising one's memory is an exhausting activity. It draws our energy and wears down our muscles.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#29. Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.

Jean-Luc Godard

#30. I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money.

Juan Gabriel

#31. Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#32. Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.

Juan Gabriel

#33. Elaine complained about this at night, in her matrimonial bed, and then complained that in Colombia all the citizens were political but no politician wanted to do anything for the citizens.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#34. I know second-generation New Yorkers who have never been to Brooklyn;

Pete Hamill

#35. I was also surprised by the alacrity and dedication we devote to the damaging exercise of remembering, which after all brings nothing good and serves only to hinder our normal functioning, like those bags of sand athletes tie around their calves for training.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#36. A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul.

Mika Waltari

#37. I'm as peachy as a peachy peach!

Koge-Donbo

#38. The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known.

John Stuart Mill

#39. I don't believe in anything, only in myself, but I respect all people who believe in something.

Juan Gabriel