Eduardo Galeano Quotes

Life is mortal. There are all these rewards and consequences. Sometimes you embrace them, and sometimes they knock you over.

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?

But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Death has more in common with Love than you might imagine.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

Mortality defines the human condition.

Everything that gets born dies.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

I live for now, not for what happens after I die.

They sin who tell us Love can die: with Life all other passions fly, all others are but vanity.

Art is eternal, but life is short.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love.

All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

I now know that things I always thought I could depend on can crash in an instant. Because of the love that I have been shown, I now know what it means to be 'beloved.' I now know that no breath is to be taken for granted.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.