💬 Quotes

"To love someone in the midst of this slaughter is an act of defiance. It is the only thing that proves we haven't turned to ash yet."

"The ghosts aren't the ones who died. The ghosts are the ones who came back, carrying the mud of the trenches in their marrow."

"I carry my adornments on my soul. I do not dress up like a popinjay, but though I lack the elegance of a fop, I am more carefully dressed: I am clean in my integrity."

"But what I truly am—that is another thing. I have a certain sort of wit, a sort of charm, that I have kept for you alone. I have given you my soul, and you—you have only seen the mask."

"To sing, to laugh, to dream, to walk in my own way and be alone, free, with an eye to see things as they are, a voice that rattles when I choose to speak; to wear my hat awry just as I please!"

"My greatest battles are fought in the silence of my own heart, where no one sees the wounds and no one hears the cries."

"And what should I do? Seek some powerful protector, take him for a patron, and like an obscure creeper mend its way to tree-trunk, lick the bark, and gain by flattery what I could not gain by force?"

"Whatever happens, one thing remains, which I shall carry with me unstained... my white plume."

"¡Oh rey afortunado! No hay nada más sorprendente que lo que les ocurrió a los que nos precedieron, para que el que vive medite sobre las historias de los antiguos."

"El destino es como una rueda que gira; hoy estás arriba y mañana estás abajo, pues la fortuna no permanece constante con nadie."

"La sabiduría no reside en la edad ni en la posición, sino en la capacidad de ver la verdad oculta tras las apariencias del mundo."

"No te aflijas por lo que ha pasado, pues lo que está escrito en la frente del hombre, inevitablemente habrá de ocurrir."

"Aquel que busca lo imposible, encuentra lo que no esperaba, y el mundo es un laberinto donde solo la paciencia ofrece la salida."

"La mujer es un abismo de astucia, capaz de tejer una red con palabras donde hasta el más fuerte de los hombres puede quedar atrapado."

"My life is a shadow play. I am the one who prompted the lines for others to speak, while I stood in the darkness, waiting for the applause that was never meant for me."

"I have decided to be admirable in everything. To be everything to everyone—and to myself nothing."

"But one does not fight with the hope of winning! No, no, it is much finer to fight when it is certain that one will lose!"

"I have my panache. It is my white plume, untarnished and unbowed, which I carry with me even to the threshold of death."

"You love him for his beauty, and he loves you for your wit; but beneath the masks we wear, we are all just searching for a soul that understands the silence between the words."

"There are things in this world that are so beautiful they must be hidden, for they are too fragile to survive the light of day."