Ernesto Sabato Quotes

Ernesto Sabato's words feel solemn, speaking about music in misery, life's learning, and protecting humanity.

31 quotes

1. 'El artista debe de ser mezcla de nino, hombre y mujer.'

2. 'El mundo nada puede contra un hombre que canta en la miseria.'

3. 'Hay una manera de contribuir a la proteccion de la humanidad, y es no resignarse.'

4. 'La vanidad es tan fantastica, que hasta nos induce a preocuparnos de lo que pensaran de nosotros una vez muertos y enterrados.'

5. 'La vida es tan corta y el oficio de vivir tan dificil, que cuando uno empieza a aprenderlo, ya hay que morirse.'

6. 'Las modas son legitimas en las cosas menores, como el vestido. En el pensamiento y en el arte son abominables.'

7. 'Lastima que cuando uno empieza a aprender el oficio de vivir ya hay que morir.'

8. 'Le explique que el mundo es una sinfonia, pero que Dios toca de oido.'

9. 'Libro: 'Botella al mar', se ha dicho. Pero con un mensaje equivoco, que puede ser interpretado de tantas maneras que dificilmente el naufrago sea localizado.'

10. 'Ser original es en cierto modo estar poniendo de manifiesto la mediocridad de los demas.'

11. 'The artist must be a mixture of boy, man, and woman.'

12. 'The world can do nothting against a man who sings through misery.'

13. 'There is a way to contribute to the protection of humanity, and it is not to quit.'

14. 'The vanity is so fantastic, even to the point that we are preoccupied with what they will think of us when we are dead and buried.'

15. 'Life is so short, and so hard to learn, that by the time we figure it out, it's time to die.'

16. 'Fashion is ok in little things, like clothing, but in thought and art, it is abominable.'

17. 'I explained to him that the world is a symphony, but God plays by ear.'

18. Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?

19. The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy.

20. Just as the office worker dreams of murdering his hated boss and so is saved from really murdering him, so it is with the author; with his great dreams he helps his readers to survive, to avoid their worst intentions. And society, without realizing it respects and even exalts him, albeit with a kind of jealousy, fear and even repulsion, since few people want to discover the horrors that lurk in the depths of their souls. This is the highest mission of great literature, and there is no other.

21. The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

22. “Este o crima, o rusine pentru fiecare om sa stie ca exista pe lume doua sute cincizeci de milioane de copii exploatati. Obligati sa munceasca de la cinci-sase ani, in locuri insalubre, sa presteze zile de munca istovitoare pentru cativa banuti cand au noroc, deoarece multi copii lucreaza in stare de sclavie sau semisclavie, fara protectie legala sau medicala. Aceste milioane de copii analfabeti, mai slabi si mai scunzi decat copiii nostri care merg la scoala, sufera de boli infectioase, rani, amputari si umilinte de toate felurile. Ii intalnim atat in marile orase ale lumii, cat si in tarile cele mai sarace. In America Latina exista cincisprezece milioane de copii exploatati.”

23. “Dupa cum se pare, demnitatea vietii omului nu a fost prevazuta in planul globalizarii. Nelinistea e singurul lucru care a ajuns pe culmi niciodata banuite. Este o lume care traieste in perversitate, unde unii, putini, isi contabilizeaza castigurile pe seama amputarii vietii imensei majoritati. S-a ajuns la aparitia unui biet om care apartine lumii dezvoltate si care are acces la nenumarate produse dintr-un supermarket. Si in timp ce acel sarman nefericit doarme linistit, inchis in fortareata lui de aparate si ciurucuri, mii de familii trebuie sa reziste cu doar un dolar pe zi. Marginalizatii de la marele banchet al economistilor se numara cu milioanele.”

24. “Lo esperado no sucede. Es lo inesperado lo que acontece.”

25. “It is strange, but living is constructing memories. Right now, here in front of the sea, I know that I am creating small memories that someday will bring me melancholy and despair.”

26. “La dictadura acecha siempre detrás de la demagogia.”

27. “Ese tiempo anónimo y universal de los relojes, que es ajeno a nuestros sentimientos, a nuestros destinos, a la formación o al derrumbe de un amor, a la espera de una muerte.”

28. “Creamos lo que no tenemos, lo que ansiosamente necesitamos.”

29. “El arte es un don que repara el alma de los fracasos y sin sabores. Nos alienta a cumplir la utopía a la que fuimos destinados.”

30. “When one is a little boy you expect a big happiness, a vast and absolute happiness. And in the meantime, as we await for this phenomenon to occur, we let pass the little joys, the only ones that exist.”

31. “Only those capable of envisaging utopia will be fit for the decisive battle, that of recovering all the humanity we have lost. ”