Ernesto Sabato quotes

Ernesto Sabato quotes

 

Ernesto Sabato

 

Ernesto Sábato left us a legacy of great phrases.

Ernesto Sábato not only left us great literary works such as "The Tunnel", "Abdón the Exterminator" and "On Heroes and Tombs", but also throughout his life he spoke numerous phrases that account for his reflections on various topics that today they are remembered throughout the world. In this note, we show you some of the most outstanding:
1- "I was always afraid of the future, because in the future, among other things, there is death."
2- "Being original is in a way showing the mediocrity of others."
3- “Fashions are legitimate in minor things, such as clothing.
In thought and art they are abhorrent".
4- “The world can do nothing against a man who sings in misery. There is a way to contribute to the protection of humanity, and that is not to resign. ”


5- “Every hour the power of the world is concentrated and globalized. The massification has wreaked havoc, it is already difficult to find originality in people and an identical process is carried out in peoples, it is the so-called globalization ”.
6- “What can be done in eighty years? Probably starting to realize how you should live and what are the three or four things that are worthwhile "
7- “There will always be such a man that, even if his house collapses, he will be concerned about the Universe. There will always be such a woman that, even if the Universe collapses, he will be concerned about his home ”
8- “It is disputed whether Dalí is authentic or a fraud. But does it make any sense to say that someone has spent their lives making a sham? "
9- “Why not suppose, on the contrary, that this continuous farce is authenticity? Any expression is, in short, a genre of sincerity ”
10- "The present begets the past"
11- "The trade -in art-, consists in not being noticed"
12- "Or will he be one of those solitary and at the same time fearful beings who only resist loneliness with the help of that great enemy of ghosts, real or imaginary, which is light?"
13- “Every morning, thousands of people resume the useless and desperate search for a job. They are the excluded, a new category that speaks to us both of the demographic explosion and of the incapacity of this economy for which the only thing that does not count is the human ”
14- “Everything suggests that the Earth is on the way to becoming an overpopulated desert… This funeral and unfortunate landscape is the work of those kinds of people who will have laughed at the poor devils who have been warning us for so many years, claiming that they were typical fables of writers, of fantasy poets ”
15- "If we cross our arms we will be complicit in a system that has legitimized silent death"

Phrases from "The Tunnel" 5 quotes


"Happiness is surrounded by pain."


"I now think about how blind love is and what a magical power of transformation it has."

"On a tiny planet, which has been running towards nothing for millions of years, we are born in the midst of pain, we grow, we fight, we get sick, we suffer, we make us suffer, we scream, we die, die and others are being born to start the useless comedy again . "



"The phrase all past time was better does not indicate that less bad things happened before, but that, happily, people forget them."


"I believe that the artist should impose the duty of never attracting attention."

With affection,

Ruben