por Compilation of quotes from one of the most influential Latin American authors; Mario Benedetti
Mario Benedetti (1920-2009) was a poet, writer, journalist and playwright born in Uruguay. He was part of the Uruguayan Generation of 45 and is considered one of the most important and influential Latin American authors.
Like other artists of his time, Benedetti became involved in politics and went into exile in Argentina after the coup in Uruguay in 1973. He returned in 1985, with what he called exile. Among his works are The truce, Who of us, Spring with a broken corner, Thanks for the fire, Death and other surprisesamong many others.
The best phrases of Mario Benedetti
We have made a compilation of Mario Benedetti quotes taken from his novels and poems. With them you will be able to reflect on his thoughts and know his ideas about life, love, pain, loneliness, happiness, guilt, hate, time, fear, among many other topics.
There are few things as deafening as silence.
Silence can cause a lot of discomfort.
When you bear your own suffering, you don’t need to take on the pain of others.
We don’t have to burden ourselves with other people’s sorrows, we must worry and take care of our own.
Fear is the precondition of courage.
When something scares us, this makes us join forces and face it to get rid of it.
What one really wants is what is made for one; then you have to take it, or try.
We should always try to get what we think is for us.
The sense of guilt adds another flavor to sin.
Knowing that something wrong is being done makes what is being done live with greater intensity.
Those fears that we invent are the most dangerous.
We do not have to add drama to situations because we will see them as impossible to resolve.
After all, death is only a symptom that there was life.
We should not fear death, since it only comes when one was alive.
One of the most pleasant things in life: watching the sun filter through the leaves.
Some of the simplest moments in life are the most wonderful to witness.
Envy is the only vice that feeds on virtues, that lives thanks to them.
Envious people strive to get what others have.
Don’t be ashamed to cry. Does well. Eliminate toxins.
Crying makes us ease the pain we feel a little and begin to heal.
It’s almost law, eternal loves are the shortest.
Loves that do not have ups and downs become very monotonous and end up ending.
Every time you fall in love, don’t explain anything to anyone, let love invade you without going into details.
We must not try to justify love; if we feel it, we should relax and enjoy it.
It’s good that you have the courage to be different and don’t succumb to unanimous power.
We should always do what we feel, and not do things because others do them.
Just when we thought we had all the answers, suddenly all the questions changed.
As we gain more knowledge, new questions arise that we did not contemplate before. We never stop learning.
Sometimes there are hunches of reason that the heart does not understand.
Many times we feel that something is the most logical thing to do, and we do it, no matter how much it hurts.
Pain makes one overly receptive.
When we suffer from something, we are much more open than when we are going through a good time in our lives.
Each city can be as many as loves travel through it.
The perception of places changes depending on the experiences of each person in them.
The certainty of knowing that I was capable of doing something better put procrastination in my hands, which, after all, is a terrible and suicidal weapon.
Sometimes we stop doing something to wait for something better and end up doing nothing.
I talk to her as if I were talking to myself.
There are people with whom we feel a great affinity and we open up completely.
Loneliness is a state of mind, but it can become a vice.
By spending a lot of time alone, we can feel very comfortable and not want to risk suffering with the company of another person.
I thought about not seeing you and trembled.
The mere idea of not being able to count on a person very dear to us anymore makes us feel very bad.
He took me by the arm and said, almost leaning on me: Do you know what’s wrong with you? That you’re not going anywhere.
If we do not have a clear objective of what we want to achieve, we will not have a path to follow and that makes us look disoriented.
Defend joy as a trench, defend it from scandal and routine, from misery and the miserable, from transitory and permanent absences.
We should never lose joy, no matter what situation we are going through.
Five minutes is enough to dream a complete life, that’s how relative time is.
Our imagination is capable of making us project a large number of things in a short period of time.
We are losing the healthy habit of hope.
Little by little, humanity is seeing the future with less enthusiasm.
You don’t know who you really are, how incinerable or incombustible you are, until you go through some bonfire.
Problems and extreme situations make us truly know who we are.
To be happy and yet not to be happy. Ah, but I never imagined that being happy included, you know? so much sadness
Many times we feel very good, but it seems to us that something is missing.
I no longer want other people’s dreams to be sold to me, but simply for mine to come true.
We always have to try to do what we want, and not do things that interest others.
I got bored with myself, with my own patience.
Sometimes we get tired of calmly waiting for what we want to come to us.
Love is one of the emblematic elements of life.
Love is very important to all people.
The only interpretation is that man can be infinitely cruel to his fellow man.
We must never lose empathy for other people, nor commit heartless acts against them.
Hatreds vivify and stimulate only if one is the one who governs them; they destroy and misalign when they are the ones who dominate.
We must learn to master our feelings so that they do not cause us pain.
The truth is that life from the beginning took advantage of me and I have not been able to and will never be able to recover lost ground.
We must live our life to the fullest, taking advantage of every moment we have in it to do what we want.
Why am I so quiet? The more those around me talk, the less I feel like saying something.
There are people who are very withdrawn and try not to attract attention when they are in a group.
So many words, just to say that I don’t want to sound pathetic.
Sometimes we talk much more than is necessary to try to make a better impression on the other person.
This time loneliness weighs on me as vice usually weighs on the addict.
Sometimes being alone can become very tedious for us.
how i need it God had been my most important lack. But I need her more than God.
There are people who become completely important in our lives and when they are gone, we feel hopeless.
Ours is that indefinite link that now unites us.
Uncertainty can keep two people together.
When one sees things from the outside, when one does not feel involved in them, it is very easy to proclaim what is bad and what is good.
We should never judge people by the way they act, since we don’t really know what they are going through.
This is how we are, each one on its shore, without hating each other, without loving each other, apart from each other.
Many times we find ourselves distanced from the person we once loved, without feeling any kind of special feeling.
We know each other so precariously that we breathe and that amazes us.
There are couples who are together, but do not know anything about the other person.
And they suffer from the most horrible variant of loneliness: the loneliness of someone who doesn’t even have himself.
We must learn to live alone and be happy with who we are as people.
I have come to think that after all, consciousness is simultaneously our heaven and our hell.
Judging our actions harshly makes us feel bad about ourselves.
What a good insomnia if I reveal myself on your body.
There is nothing more beautiful than waking up next to the person you love.
His lips were a necessary caress, how could he have lived until now without them.
There are people who make us feel things we have never felt before.
Comfort is springy, more and more springy, softens, calms, immobilizes.
By feeling safe and calm as we are, we are losing the passion to see new things and we stop enjoying life.
You have to shout into people’s ears, since their apparent deafness is a kind of cowardly and unhealthy self-defense.
People are less and less empathic with others.
She gave me her hand and no more was needed.
A small gesture from the person we love is enough to make us feel complete.
If the time comes, it doesn’t matter a boeing than the punctual flowerpot that collapses on you from a seventh floor.
Death comes to all of us and when it’s our time, it doesn’t matter which way it happens.
Of all those hands, his was the only one that transmitted life.
Many times we feel attracted to a person just by touching them.
Saying sorry is humiliating and doesn’t fix anything. The solution is not to ask for forgiveness, but to avoid outbursts that make excuses mandatory.
We must try to act in such a way that we do not make a loved one angry with us.
It’s so nice to know that you exist.
There are people who brighten our lives just by knowing that they are there.
Sometimes I think what I will do when all my life is Sunday.
The idea of retiring can make us a little desperate, not knowing what to do with so much free time.
You are not that, I am not that, those, the ones we were before we were.
Over time we change our way of being and thinking and sometimes it happens that we end up ignoring the person next to us.
I have the horrible feeling that time passes and I do nothing and nothing happens, and nothing moves me to the core.
We must never allow ourselves to lose the zest for life, we always have to look for new things to do.
Suddenly I was aware that that moment, that this slice of everyday life, was the maximum degree of well-being, it was bliss.
Sometimes, in a very simple act of the day we are able to feel happier than ever.
Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.
We must always be generous with others and take an interest in their well-being.
How I would like to close my eyes and start over and open them later with the late lucidity that the years bring, but with the vitality that I no longer have.
We all want to be young again, but with the wisdom we have acquired over the years.
When you let yourself be defeated, you become deformed, you become a rude parody of yourself.
We must never give up, always…