Gregorio Marañón Quote

True sexuality is not just the coming together of the sexes, but the creative work of man and the motherhood of woman.

To live is not only to exist, but to exist and create, to know how to enjoy and suffer, and not to sleep without dreaming. To rest is to begin to die.

Gregorio Marañón

You won't know how much I'm worth until I can't be everything I am when I'm with you.

Gregorio Marañón

Almost always, when a marriage is going well, it's because one of the spouses is in charge and the other obeys.

Gregorio Marañón

The crowd has always been driven by gestures rather than ideas throughout history. The crowd never reasons.

Gregorio Marañón

You have more qualities than you think; but to know if the coins are made of good gold, they must be rolled, circulated. Spend your treasure.

Gregorio Marañón

Every man carries a ghost of a woman, not in the imagination that would then be easy to expel; but circulating in his blood, and every woman a more or less concrete ghost of a man.

Gregorio Marañón

The capacity for enthusiasm is a sign of spiritual health.

Gregorio Marañón

Work without hurry is the greatest rest for the body.

Gregorio Marañón

If sorrow doesn't die, it is killed.

Gregorio Marañón

Competitions are the bloodiest national spectacle after bullfighting.

Gregorio Marañón

Speed, which is a virtue, begets a vice, which is haste.

Gregorio Marañón

Happiness is a fundamentally negative feeling: the absence of pain.

Gregorio Marañón