Mario Escobar > Quotes

“prefería ver a los nazis como monstruos inhumanos. Cuanto más humanos pudieran ser, más me horrorizaban, ya que eso significaba que todos podíamos convertirnos en seres tan despreciables como ellos. La”
― Mario Escobar, Canción de cuna en Aushwitz

“Sometimes we have to lose everything to find what is most important. When life robs us of what we thought we could not live without and leaves us standing naked before reality, the essential things tht had always been invisible take on their true value.”
― Mario Escobar, Canción de cuna de Auschwitz

“Love is a decision more than it is a feeling.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“The worst friend of the truth is silence. The worst lie in the world is that ordinary people are powerless against tyranny.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“Cuando has perdido la ilusión, la vida se convierte en una carga, algo insustancial y vano que te lleva a la desesperación.”
― Mario Escobar, El Círculo

“Human beings are momentary breaths in the midst of the hurricane of our circumstances,”
― Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby

“Sometimes the things we lack or the obstacles we face become allies that help us endure.”
― Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby

“Every time someone opens a book, it comes alive once more. Its characters wake up from their nap and start acting all over again.”
― Mario Escobar, The Librarian of Saint-Malo: A WWII Novel

“Lo contrario del amor no es el odio, es la indiferencia. Lo contrario de la belleza no es la fealdad, es la indiferencia. Lo contrario de la fe no es la herejía, es la indiferencia. Y lo contrario de la vida no es la muerte, sino la indiferencia entre la vida y la muerte.”
― Mario Escobar, Canción de cuna en Aushwitz

“The power of words does not lie in the stories we tell, but in our ability to connect to the hearts of those who read them.”
― Mario Escobar, The Librarian of Saint-Malo

“Lo que hace estremecer al hombre es casi siempre lo que más le conviene”.”
― Mario Escobar, Misión Verne

“With its voracious appetite, time always devours the memories and faces of those we love. Memory fights to hold on to them through the strength of tears and the painful sigh of love.”
― Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby

“This book is just that: the capacity we have as human beings to transform the world in each generation, when the balances are zeroed out and, for better or worse, everything begins again.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“Life’s not worth living if you don’t give it to others.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“A family was much more than a group of people united by blood. More than anything, it was the thin thread that kept the present linked to the past. Memories and memory itself kept both worlds together.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“Vera ne-a reamintit ca cea mai buna hrana pentru suflet era speranta.”
― Mario Escobar, Cântec de leagăn de la Auschwitz

“Sometimes, when reality scrapes against your heart, it is better to avoid it with daydreams.”
― Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby

“Tears spilled out of closed eyes and mixed with the tears of the faces pressed against them.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“True peace was a sleeping child’s face.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“For a moment, time stood still; nothing happened; eternity posed all its intricate movement on that one moment.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“You can’t learn to swim unless you’re willing to risk drowning. Keeping your distance from the water might keep you safe for a while, but it also keeps you far way from the things that are really worth it.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“Eram o corabie veche in mijlocul furtunii si copiii mei ma ancorau de viata. Trebuia sa continui sa lupt pentru ei, sa ma agat de speranta, sa infrunt fiecare zi si sa ma rog pentru sfarsitul cosmarului.”
― Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby

“podemos ser dueños de nuestro destino, aunque el mundo entero se nos oponga. No”
― Mario Escobar, Canción de cuna en Aushwitz

“Cruelty and evil were the clock hands that made Auschwitz tick.”
― Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby

“Observing the happiness of others always makes the world make a little more sense all of a sudden, makes suffering a little more bearable, makes grief a little less suffocating.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“The souls of men and women make a country great.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“I was thinking about friendship, about the indestructible ties of love between two people, who until a certain time had been complete strangers, but, who, somehow, on the solitary path of life, found another soul with whom to share the journey.”
― Mario Escobar, Remember Me: A Novel of the Spanish Civil War

“In one sense, childhood is an eternal present. The road traveled is just a few feet beyond the starting point, and the end goal seems so far away that it gives the false sense of eternity that the young always feel.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“Cruzimea si raul erau limbile ceasului care faceau Auschwitz-ul sa ticaie.”
― Mario Escobar, Cântec de leagăn de la Auschwitz

“my hope is that someday, when humanity regains its sanity, people will know that the only way to be saved from barbarianism is by love: loving books, loving people, and, though you may call me crazy, loving our enemies. There’s no doubt that love is the most revolutionary choice and, therefore, the most persecuted and reviled. Augustine of Hippo’s thrilling phrase still reverberates in my ears: “Love, and do what you will.”
― Mario Escobar, The Librarian of Saint-Malo: A WWII Novel