The best phrases of Mario Benedetti

Mario Benedetti was a poet, writer and playwright that everyone should know, and to help you in the process and encourage you to see the positive in his work, we have prepared a collection with the best phrases of Mario Benedetti, a fantastic compendium that will help you get to know a little better this man who belonged to the generation of 45.

Mario Benedetti, a writer who should be part of your library

We imagine that most of you will know Mario Benedetti, but it is also true that among our followers there are many young people who are still in the process of training and it is possible that they have not had the opportunity to read anything by this fantastic Uruguayan writer, and that is For this reason, we think that with a series of outstanding phrases within his work we will be able to motivate you to see the importance of having him within your collection of the most important writers in history.

At the same time, we also recommend that you get to know his life a little more, since a large part of it is represented in his work, which consists of more than 80 books of which a good part have been translated into more than 20 languages, with which which is evident the worldwide repercussion of this man who was born on September 14, 1920 in the Paso de los Toros in Uruguay.

As for his death, it was at the age of 88 years on May 17, 2009 in Montevideo, and two of the most outstanding works of this winner of the Morsoli Prize, an award that aimed to reward culture in Uruguay by recognizing those people that offered a positive contribution, are La trugua and Gracias por el fuego, so we recommend that, if you want to start reading something about this man, you start with these works since you will not regret it.

It should be noted that, due to financial problems, Mario Benedetti could not finish his studies at the Liceo Miranda, so he had to continue studying on his own while working.

Get to know the most outstanding phrases of Mario Benedetti

Here are some of the most popular phrases by Mario Benedetti.

• "Round trip" seeing it in retrospect was a bad work, it had prizes and so on, but I am not satisfied with its success and, I think that its political position was very badly raised.
• "Suicides are shy killers" I've always liked that phrase and will always love it.
• Sometimes I feel unhappy for no reason.
• Some things from the past disappeared, but others open a gap to the future and are what I want to rescue.
• There are three kinds of people here: those who kill themselves while working, those who should work, and those who should kill themselves.
• Artigas is one of the most progressive figures in America, three years before Marx was born, he had already written the first agrarian reform.
• So we are, each one on his shore, without hating us, without loving us, others.
• Every time you fall in love, do not explain anything to anyone, let love invade you without going into details.
• Five minutes is enough to live a lifetime, that's how relative time is.
• Against optimism there are no vaccines.
• I believe that life is a parenthesis between two nothing. I am an atheist. I believe in a personal god, which is consciousness, and that to which we have to be accountable every day.
• When we thought we had all the answers, suddenly all the questions changed.
• When hell is others, paradise is not oneself.
• When things got tough in our country, fortunately the magazine crossed both borders.
• When hatreds are on the loose, one loves in self-defense.
• When I have worries, fears or a love story, I am lucky to be able to transform it into a poem.
• The new man must beware of two dangers: to the right when he is right-handed, to the left when he is left-handed.
• Suddenly we feel prisoners of a circumstance that we did not seek, but rather sought us out.
• Of all those hands, his was the only one that gave me life.
• Defend joy as a trench, defend it from scandal and routine, from misery and the miserable, from temporary and permanent absences.
• After joy comes loneliness, after fullness comes loneliness, after love comes loneliness. I know that it is a poor deformation, but the truth is that in that minute one feels alone in the world, without handles, without excuses, without hugs, without grudges. Without the things that unite or separate. And in that single way of being alone, not even one takes pity on oneself.
• After all, death is only a symptom of life.
• Love is a word, a bit of utopia.
• Nazism appeared just when I started in the German school, as a consequence we lived under discrimination. Those from German families were assigned to class A and we to class B, that's why we fought at all recesses.
• The plan laid out is absolute freedom. Meet and see what happens, let time run and review. There are no obstacles. There are no compromises.
• The cheater is because he does not have the courage to be honest.
• She didn't say anything. She liked him saying things to her, but she was silent. Only his hands and his eyes spoke and that was enough.
• In certain oasis, the desert is just a mirage.
• In this world so encoded with the internet and other navigations, I still prefer the old handmade kiss that has always communicated so much.
• In reality, there is only the direction we take, what may have been is no longer valid.
• In Uruguay we depended on distant deaths, on those peoples who depended on our meat and our wool. All this led to a self-conviction, and a hypocritical conviction that everything was over.
• It's almost law, eternal loves are the shortest.
• It is clear that the best thing is not the caress itself, but its continuation.
• It's funny how you can be so innocently cruel sometimes.

• It's nice to know that you exist.
• That happiness with all its capital letters does not exist. Ah! But if they were in lowercase it would be so similar to what our pre-loneliness has been.
• Notice that when he smiles, quotation marks form at each end of his mouth. That, her mouth, is my date
• It was very important from my point of view the moral attitude of my father who, due to an excess of honesty, preferred to assume all his debts instead of declaring bankruptcy.
• There are ten centimeters of silence between your hands and my hands, a border of unspoken words between your lips and my lips. And something that shines so sad between your eyes and my eyes.
• There is less time than place, however, there are places that last a minute and for a certain time there is no place.
• There are few things as deafening as silence.
• People told me that I was very lucky to have had success with the first book "Poems of the Office" and I told them no, that this was the eighth, but no one had found out about the other seven.
• Uncertainty is a daisy whose petals never finish removing their leaves.
• Childhood is sometimes a lost paradise. But other times it's shitty hell.
• The butterfly will forever remember that it was a worm.
• Death takes away everything that was not, but we are left with what we had.
• Perfection is a polished bug fix.
• The reality is a bundle of problems over which no one claims copyright.
• The security of knowing that I was capable of doing something better put procrastination in my hands, which in the end is a terrible and suicidal weapon.
• Loneliness never comes alone, if you look over the withered shoulder of our loneliness, you will see a long and compact impossible; a simple respect for third or fourth; that mishap of being good people.
• The true division of social classes would have to be done taking into account the time each one gets out of bed.
• Office life gave me many topics, I would be badly grateful if I did not say that; but I got bored with that life and went back to journalism.
• Indelible Eve is a very bad book, I never include it in the inventory of how bad it is.
• The truth is that I was unaware that I had those reserves of tenderness in me.
• Ours is that indefinite bond that now unites us.
• What I like most about you is something that there will not be time to take away from you.
• What converted me to anti-imperialism was my visit to the United States. Discrimination with respect to blacks, Puerto Ricans and Czechs. It was something that moved me a lot.
• What you really want is what is made for you; then you have to take it, or try. In that life you can go, but it is a much better life.
• Hates vivify and stimulate only if it is one who governs them; they destroy and misalign when they are the ones who dominate.
• The painters that I never liked in the reproductions I liked in the original paintings. Visiting museums was one of the things that mattered the most to me in my travels.
• The poets at that time wrote about flowers and gazelles and even a fauna that did not even exist in the place. The poets did not sell anything, the public showed no interest in that generation.
• Feelings are innocent like bladed weapons.
• More than kissing her, more than sleeping together, more than anything else, she held my hand and that was love.
• More than his eyes, his gaze. It looked like wanting to say something and not saying it.
• They explained that it was a cordial invitation to leave immediately.
• I like the wind, I don't know why, but when I walk against the wind it seems to erase things. I mean: things I want to erase.
• I like people who are able to understand that the greatest human error is trying to get out of the head what comes from the heart.
• I would like to look at everything from afar but with you.
• Melancholy: romantic way of being sad.
• My father and mother, although they never divorced, they always got on very badly; for a child it is always something traumatizing, my way of writing has a lot to do with it.
• My first trip to the United States made me realize the North American influence we were having in the country, that's where this book was born: La Pell de Brau
• We are born sad and we die sad, but in the meantime we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.
• I need not to fall into the remote risk of needing you.
• You don't have to promise anything because promises are horrible bonds, and when you feel tied up, you tend to free yourself, that's fatal.
• Do not tempt me, if we are tempted we will not be able to forget.
• I do not know why, but today I have missed you, for missing your presence. Someone told me that oblivion is full of memory.
• I don't know your name, I just know the look with which you say it to me.

• Not only do the conditioning factors of childhood intervene, but public morality as a country has made us slaves of appearances.
• Do not believe what they tell you about the world, I already told you that the world is uncountable.
• I never thought that happiness had so much sadness.
• Hopefully the wait doesn't wear out my dreams.
• For me the genre that matters most to me of what I write is poetry, then the short story and then the essay. Finally the novel. Although it may be what I have earned the most money.
• Asking for forgiveness is humiliating and doesn't fix anything. The solution is not to apologize, but to avoid the outbursts that make excuses mandatory.
• Because you always exist wherever, but you exist better where I love you.
• Possibly he loved me, who knows, but the truth is that he had a special ability to hurt me.
• You can come to complain about how you are. Even though it is not you anymore.
• For someone to make you feel things without putting a finger on you, that's admirable.
• That the world and I really love you, but I always a little more than the world.
• Let it be clear to you. Where your mouth ends, mine begins.
• My dear, our marriage has not been a failure, but something much more horrible: a wasted success.
• Who would say, the weak never really give up.
• Maybe that has brought us together. Perhaps it united not the most appropriate word. I mean the relentless hatred each of us feels for our own face.
• They said goodbye and in the goodbye there was already the welcome.
• Footsteps of someone are heard that never arrive.
• I know I'm going to love you without questions, I know I'm going to love you without answers.
• If I ever commit suicide, it will be on Sunday. It is the most discouraging day, the most bland.
• If the heart gets tired of seeing, what is it for?
• If I live in your memory I will not be alone.
• If you knew what you have as clearly as you know what you lack.
• I'm always in a bad temper. I do not know. Like I'm uncomfortable with myself.
• However, I still doubt this good luck, because heaven to have you seems fantasy to me.
• We are sadness, that's why joy is a feat.
• His lips were a necessary caress, how could he have lived until now without them.
• Sighs of hope already lost.
• I also feel a slight resentment in the face of what is corny, and to me corny seems to be just that: always walking with my heart in my hand.
• I wait for you when the night turns to day,? Sighs of hope already lost. I don't think you're coming, I know.
• I'll wait for you when we look at the sky at night: you there, me here.
• I have left you thinking about many things, but I hope you think about me a little.
• I have the horrible feeling that time passes and I do nothing and nothing happens, and nothing moves me to the root.
• Every night I torture myself thinking of you.
• We all need an accomplice sometime, someone to help us use our hearts.
• We all want what cannot be done, we are fans of what is forbidden.
• Your eyes are my spell against the bad day.
• A lawyer with a briefcase can rob more than a thousand armed men.
• A pessimist is just a well-informed optimist.
• A river of sadness flows through my veins, but I have forgotten to cry.
• A confession: loneliness has stopped hurting me.
• One of the most pleasant things in life: watching the sun filter through the leaves.
• You don't know how I value your simple courage to love me.
• You have all the conditions to meet my happiness, but I have very few to meet yours.
• And although I have not always understood? my faults and my failures ?, instead I know that in your arms the world makes sense.
• And to be totally, completely, absolutely in love, one must be fully aware that one is also loved, that one also inspires love.
• It's almost time for me to start dedicating my insomnia to you.
• I love, you love, he loves, we love, you love, they love. I wish it were not conjugation but reality.
• I don't know if God exists, but if He exists, I know that my doubt will not bother him.
• I would like to be me, but a little better.

We hope you liked these phrases, and of course we encourage you to know the literary work of this man, as well as his history and the way in which it has evolved over the years.