Francisco M. Juárez > Francisco M.'s Quotes

“Me propongo contar, pues, la trama del siglo. De mi siglo. Mi versión sobre cómo el azar ha gobernado al mundo y sobre cómo los hombres de ciencia tratamos en vano de domesticar su furia.”
― Jorge Volpi, En busca de Klingsor

“How absurd life becomes with someone else: everything is interpreted; even the most trivial thing is imbued with symbolic value.”
― Jorge Volpi, In Spite of the Dark Silence

“The truth. Why are we so obsessed with the truth—begging for it, asking for it, demanding it, when all we really want to do is confirm our own vision of reality?”
― Jorge Volpi

“Hay algo en el generoso y abnegado amor de un animal que llega directamente al corazón de aquel que con frecuencia a probado la falsa amistad y la frágil fidelidad del hombre".”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

“I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
― H. P. Lovercraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.”
― G.H. Hardy

“Si se requiere mucho valor para admitir que no conoces todas las respuestas, imagina lo difícil que es admitir que nis siquiera conoces la pregunta.”
― Stephen J. Dubner, Think Like a Freak

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“Comprender los sentimientos de cualquier mujer es más complicado y desagradable que estudiar las emociones de una lombriz. Según mi experiencia, que viene de cuando era niño, cuando una mujer se pone a llorar de repente, lo mejor es ofrecerle algún dulce y enseguida mejora su humor.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
― Carl Sagan

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“Te quiero, sí, te quiero: pero a medida de que te quiero se me van haciendo innecesarias las palabras.”
― Jaime Sabines, Los amorosos: Cartas a Chepita

“Nunca dejes de sonreír, ni siquiera cuando estés triste, porque nunca sabes quien se puede enamorar de tu sonrisa.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up. Unleash your imagination. Shape the future.”
― Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Lo que mucha gente llama amar consiste en elegir una mujer y casarse con ella. La eligen, te lo juro, los he visto. Como si se pudiera elegir en el amor, como si no fuera un rayo que te parte los huesos y te deja estaqueado en la mitad del patio. Vos dirás que la eligen porque-la-aman, yo creo que es al vesre. A Beatriz no se la elige, a Julieta no se la elige. Vos no elegís la lluvia que te va a calar hasta los huesos cuando salís de un concierto.”
― Julio Cortázar, Rayuela

“Somos ángeles y demonios al mismo tiempo. No somos una sola persona, sino una contradicción, una complejidad de fuerzas que luchan dentro de nosotros.”
― Mario Mendoza, Satanás

“But as with so many things in our lives, the reason for doing something is not the important thing. It is the fact of doing that remains.”
― Dan Simmons, Endymion