Ernesto Sabato

Novelist Argentine 1911 – 2011

Argentine novelist known for The Tunnel.

375 quotes

"Justice is an ideal we pursue but never truly achieve."
Justice
"The modern world isolates us while promising connection."
Technology
"Patience is the virtue of those who have learned to wait for meaning."
Patience
"Kindness in a cruel world is an act of defiance."
Kindness
"Power corrupts not because of its nature, but because of our nature."
Power
"Money is the modern god we worship while denying its divinity."
Money
"Health is invisible until we lose it, then it becomes our only concern."
Health
"Adventure is the search for ourselves in unfamiliar terrain."
Adventure
"The fear of death is the fear of having lived meaninglessly."
Fear
"We are all exiles in our own lives, searching for a home we've never known."
Solitude
"Perseverance is not strength; it is the refusal to accept defeat."
Perseverance
"Gratitude awakens us to the miracle of simply being alive."
Gratitude
"Creativity is the rebellion of the human spirit against the mechanical world."
Creativity
"The war between good and evil takes place within each human heart."
War
"Motivation often comes from desperation rather than inspiration."
Motivation
"Inspiration strikes those who are prepared to receive it."
Inspiration
"Relationships are the crucible where our true selves are revealed."
Relationships
"Music speaks what language cannot express."
Music
"Nature is indifferent to our pain and indifferent to our joy."
Nature
"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the acceptance of it."
Peace
"Hope is the delusion that allows us to continue living."
Hope
"Change is the only constant, yet we resist it with all our might."
Change
"Education should teach us to think, not what to think."
Education
"Leadership is the burden of those who cannot refuse responsibility."
Leadership
"Work without meaning is slavery by another name."
Work
"The greatest discoveries come from questioning what others accept."
Science
"We are all prisoners of our own perspectives."
Philosophy
"The city is a monument to human isolation and connection simultaneously."
Politics
"Writing is a way of understanding what we do not yet know."
Literature
"The eye that sees beauty sees the face of God."
Beauty