Rebeca Fernández Ortega > Rebeca's Quotes

“It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams...No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream-alone...”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.”
― E.B. White

“God, let me think clearly and brightly; let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences, let me someday see who I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As longs as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank

“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The knowledge that I have gathered is that there is nothing better and nothing that gives you more tranquillity of spirit than offering yourself in love to another. This is the most important lesson I have learned, and through this I feel at peace.”
― Pablo Vierci, Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story

“love is not capable of being divided, it is only capable of being magnified.”
― Pablo Vierci, Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story

“Mami era tan buena, que Dios la precisaba; tú mira para arriba, y háblale, porque Dios le da permiso para que te conteste”. Ella miró hacia el cielo. Entonces le agregué: “Siempre que tú la precises, háblale que ella te va a responder”.”
― Pablo Vierci, La sociedad de la nieve

“Había aprendido en esos últimos días de moribundo que la vida había que merecerla, no se recibía de regalo,
y para merecerla había que entregar algo, fundamentalmente afecto”
― Pablo Vierci, La sociedad de la nieve

“Lo que más deseo es que siempre que se cuente la historia de los Andes por lo menos se puedan leer sus nombres, porque un nombre es un recuerdo, y un recuerdo es una vida que perdura para la eternidad.”
― Pablo Vierci, La sociedad de la nieve

“me. I have had many problems in my life. My mother”
― Pablo Vierci, Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story