Eduardo Galeano Quotes

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

Standing up and teaching is grueling, but grueling fun.

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

I associate music with fun and joy.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.

I just think music is such a beautiful thing. It lifts the heart and buoys up your spirits - all kinds of music.

Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

I like for people to have fun and that comes out in the music.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.

Crucifixion is the most wretched of deaths.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

It was extraordinary to experience 'Mamma Mia!' What an injection of good spirit and heart it was.

My object is to make people happy with our music.

It's quite rare that you find something that you can quite literally have an absolute ball doing, as well as the tough stuff and the difficult stuff and the pain.

At the end of the day, if I can say I had fun, it was a good day.

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.