Elena Garro

Novelist Mexican 1916 – 1998

Mexican writer known for Los recuerdos del porvenir.

366 quotes

"A woman's silence is often louder than her words."
Wisdom
"Adventure begins where fear ends and curiosity begins."
Adventure
"We become what we remember about ourselves."
Philosophy
"Music speaks the languages that literature can only approximate."
Music
"Faith is believing in the story even when the plot is unclear."
Faith
"The most honest mirrors are the ones we avoid."
Truth
"Creativity is the act of making something from the ruins of what was."
Creativity
"Leadership is the courage to admit when you've been wrong."
Leadership
"Time doesn't heal wounds; it teaches us to live with scars."
Time
"The greatest gift is being truly seen by another person."
Love
"Happiness hides in the details we usually overlook."
Happiness
"A life without questions is a life unlived."
Philosophy
"Friendship is the luxury of being understood without explanation."
Friendship
"Success is defining it for yourself, not for the world."
Success
"The human heart is the most complex geography ever mapped."
Wisdom
"We inherit languages, but we must forge our own words."
Literature
"Sorrow and beauty are often the same thing viewed differently."
Beauty
"Nature teaches us that growth requires both roots and branches."
Nature
"Science reveals what imagination has already dreamed."
Science
"Health is the conversation between our body and our spirit."
Health
"Humor is the mask we wear to survive the unsurvivable."
Humor
"War begins not with weapons, but with the refusal to listen."
War
"Politics is the art of deciding whose story gets to be told."
Politics
"Technology cannot replace what only humans can create."
Technology
"To love is to make ourselves infinitely vulnerable."
Love
"Wisdom is knowing which questions to ask repeatedly."
Wisdom
"The future is written in the choices we make today."
Philosophy
"A moment of honesty is worth a lifetime of comfortable lies."
Truth
"Imagination is the revolutionary's only true weapon."
Imagination
"We dance not because we know the steps, but to learn them."
Life