Top 63 Quotes & Sayings by Jose Bergamin
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Spanish writer Jose Bergamin.
Last updated on April 19, 2025.
Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.
We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.
Happiness is always a coincidence.
A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.
A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?
True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.
To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.
When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.
There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.
Art is good but it isn't the best.
The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.
Theology is the logic of the Devil.
The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.
A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.
Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.
Who learns most from a good book is the author.
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer.
In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.
Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.
All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.
Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing
Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.
The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.
Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.
I fear only that which I love, says man, according to Montaigne. Woman replies: I love only that which I fear.
Those who are scandalized by a naked body--thinks the Devil--are easy prey: they are already doomed.
When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.
You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.
To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.
A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.
When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say "What lovely music!
What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.
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