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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

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

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

“Happiness was compromised of small decisions that move you closer to your dreams. Before you could be happy, you had to imagine life as an exciting novel with a happy ending.”
― Mario Escobar, Children of the Stars

“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

“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

“Life’s not worth living if you don’t give it to others.”
― 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

“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

“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

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

“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

“Genocidal tyrants like Adolf Hitler have always existed, but they only triumphed when an entire people became willing accomplices to their crimes.”
― Mario Escobar, The Forgotten Names

“Johann had told me once that he had heard Himmler say on the radio that, after the war, all the Gypsies would be relocated to a reservation where they could live according to their ancestral customs without interference. It all sounded like castles in the air, but that day I could at least start dreaming. I had now been given the sacred mission of saving the Gypsy children at Birkenau, which would start by reviving their will to live in the midst of all that death”
― Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby

“Tot timpul era prezenta o condamnare la moarte care avea numele noastre scrise pe ea. Mai devreme sau mai tarziu, toti trebuie sa murim, dar in lagarul de concentrare mi se parea ca nu muream, doar incetam sa existam.”
― Mario Escobar, Cântec de leagăn de la Auschwitz

“No era del tipo de hombre que se alegra por una victoria a medias, ni se entristece por una derrota pasajera.”
― Mario Escobar, El reino del cielo: La novela histórica más emocionante desde Los Pilares de la Tierra

“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