Mariano Azuela

Novelist Mexican 1873 – 1952

Mexican novelist known for The Underdogs.

372 quotes

"The search for truth requires abandoning comfortable falsehoods."
Truth
"Dreams inspire action, while daydreams inspire only passivity."
Dreams
"Beauty fades, but the memory of beauty can sustain us forever."
Beauty
"Death reminds us that all earthly achievements are ultimately temporary."
Death
"Patience with others begins with patience with oneself."
Patience
"The greatest adventures are often those we never planned for."
Adventure
"A grateful heart is rich regardless of material circumstances."
Gratitude
"Imagination allows us to envision futures that have not yet been born."
Imagination
"Peace in the world begins with peace within the individual."
Peace
"The future belongs to those willing to imagine it into being."
Inspiration
"The revolution is a whirlwind, and those who ride it must understand its fury."
Change
"In Mexico, we live with ghosts of our past while building futures we cannot see."
History
"The written word captures truths that the spoken word often abandons."
Literature
"Ambition without conscience is merely tyranny dressed in fine clothes."
Justice
"The masses are moved not by logic but by passion and necessity."
Politics
"Art reflects the soul of a nation in its moment of greatest transformation."
Art
"To document suffering is to honor those who endure it."
Kindness
"Social upheaval teaches us that stability is always an illusion."
Wisdom
"The common man's story is the truest chronicle of any era."
Philosophy
"Corruption festers in the spaces between law and morality."
Justice
"Memory is the battlefield where we fight our personal revolutions."
Strength
"To write is to bear witness to the world's transformations."
Creativity
"Violence begets only the children of violence in endless cycles."
War
"The peasant who questions his station becomes dangerous to the state."
Courage
"Literature exists to give voice to those history silenced."
Literature
"True freedom is not the absence of struggle but its honest acknowledgment."
Freedom
"In times of chaos, the written word becomes an act of defiance."
Inspiration
"Social injustice does not announce itself with trumpets; it whispers in poverty."
Justice
"The land itself possesses memory that humans struggle to understand."
Nature
"Progress without compassion is merely the rearrangement of cruelty."
Wisdom