Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino

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Unrealized futures are just branches of the past: dry branches.

Ramón de Campoamor

Ramón de Campoamor

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Friendship is a love that is not communicated through the senses.

Ramón de Campoamor

Ramón de Campoamor

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My faith is so fulfilled that I adore God, even though He gave me life.

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

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For every free man who falls, ten slaves are born and the future grows a little darker.

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

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If love were enough, things would be too simple. The more one loves, the more the absurdity solidifies.

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

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The solidarity of men is based on the movement of rebellion, and this, in turn, only finds justification in this complicity. We will, therefore, have the right to say that any rebellion that is authorized to deny or destroy this solidarity loses at the same time the name of rebellion and actually coincides with criminal consent.

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

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Freedom consists, first and foremost, in not lying. Wherever lies proliferate, tyranny is announced or perpetuated.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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The truth thins down and does not break, and always walks over lies like oil on water.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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He who reads a lot and travels a lot, sees a lot and knows a lot.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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In love's beginnings, quick disillusionments often serve as qualified remedies.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Falsehood has wings and flies, and truth follows it crawling, so that when people realize the deception, it's already too late.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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Fortunate is the one to whom heaven gave a piece of bread, without being indebted for it to anyone other than heaven itself!