Marta Martínez > Marta's Quotes

“Andábamos sin buscarnos, pero sabiendo que andábamos para encontrarnos”
― Julio Cortazar, Rayuela

“...nos queríamos en una dialéctica de imán y limadura, de ataque y defensa, de pelota y pared.”
― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

“Cómo si se pudiera elegir en el amor. Cómo si no fuera un rayo que te parte los huesos y te deja estaqueado en la mitad del patio... Vos no elegís la lluvia que te va a calar hasta los huesos cuando salís de un concierto”
― Julio Cortázar

“Sólo viviendo absurdamente se podría romper alguna vez este absurdo infinito”
― Julio Cortázar

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.”
― Karl Kraus

“Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.”
― Karl Kraus

“The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.”
― Karl Kraus

“You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.”
― Paul Auster, Invisible

“It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.”
― Paul Auster, Oracle Night

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Had they known the difficulties that were to befall them, they might not have been so rash in falling in love. But perhaps there was no way of avoiding it. Fate, karma, the will of the Gods… call it what you like, it was surely meant to happen. After all, in all the vastness of the Universe they had been thrown together.”
― Isabel Greenberg, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth

“That's how it is with want. As long as you lack something you yearn for it without cease. if only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get it, once the object of your desires is thrust into your hands, it begins to lose its charm. Other wants assert themselves, other desires make themselves felt, and bit by bit you discover that you're right back where you started.”
― Paul Auster, Mr. Vertigo

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“See what you're doing wrong, laugh at it, change and do better.”
― Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life...

“you've got to burn
straight up and down
and then maybe sidewise
for a while
and have your guts
scrambled by a
bully
and the demonic
ladies,
you've got to run
along the edge of
madness
teetering,
you've got to starve
like a winter
alleycat,
you've go to live
with the imbecility
of at least a dozen
cities,
then maybe
maybe
maybe
you might know
where you are
for a tiny
blinking
moment.”
― Charles Bukowski, Bone Palace Ballet: New Poems

“Time cannot be broken; that is our greatest burden. And our greatest challenge is to live in spite of that burden.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession

“Some cannot loosen their own chains and can nonetheless redeem their friends.   You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes? —Thus Spake Zarathustra”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession

“Again, Nietzsche thumbed through his notes, and then read, “ ‘One must have chaos and frenzy within oneself to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“The cup was emptied and would never be filled again.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“Einsamkeit ist Unabhängigkeit, ich hatte sie mir gewünscht und mir erworben in langen Jahren. Sie war kalt, o ja, sie war aber auch still, wunderbar still und groß wie der kalte stille Raum, in dem die Sterne sich drehen.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“T’ain’t no sin to take off your skin, and dance around in your bones.”
― Tom Waits

“the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by”
― Tom Waits