Camilo Castelo Branco

Novelist Portuguese 1825 – 1890

Portuguese novelist known for romantic novels.

385 quotes

"Health is not the absence of disease, but the presence of vitality."
Health
"Adventure begins the moment you stop listening to your fears."
Adventure
"Imagination is the only country where the impossible is law."
Imagination
"Technology should free us, not enslave us to its logic."
Technology
"History is the jury that judges us all."
History
"Philosophy is the art of asking the right questions."
Philosophy
"The greatest music is the silence between the notes."
Music
"Every sorrow teaches the value of joy."
Death
"The family that prays together, stays together."
Family
"Science without conscience is the ruin of the soul."
Science
"War teaches us what peace could never: the value of peace."
War
"Politics is the shadow-play of morality."
Politics
"In every heart dwells a poet waiting to be awakened."
Art
"The moment you stop changing, you begin to die."
Change
"Patience is not empty waiting; it is purposeful persistence."
Patience
"Humor is the humanity we inject into an absurd universe."
Humor
"Freedom is the weight we carry for having chosen our own path."
Freedom
"Justice delayed is justice denied, and denial breeds the next generation of injustice."
Justice
"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."
Truth
"Motivation fades, but character endures."
Motivation
"Inspiration is the soul's way of speaking to the mind."
Inspiration
"The relationships we cultivate are the only inheritance that matters."
Relationships
"The heart that has truly loved never forgets, even when reason commands it to cease feeling."
Love
"In the silence of solitude, the soul speaks truths that society dares not acknowledge."
Solitude
"A man's worth is not measured by his fortune, but by the integrity of his character."
Wisdom
"Time is the cruelest judge, for it reveals what we truly are beneath our pretenses."
Time
"The greatest tragedy is not failure, but the failure to attempt what stirs the soul."
Courage
"Freedom without responsibility is merely the tyranny of one's own desires."
Freedom
"In literature, we find not escape, but the deepest reflection of our own nature."
Literature
"The bonds of family are forged not merely by blood, but by sacrifice and understanding."
Family