Best 15 quotes of Jorge Amado on MyQuotes

He owned a whole world full of memories, of lovely moments relived and happy recollections. I'm not saying he was happy or that he didn't suffer. He suffered very much, but he did not despair; he still drew nourishment from what he had been given. But the sadness never left him. Happiness needs more than memories of the past to feed on; it also needs dreams of the future.

I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.

I believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. There’s nothing I enjoy more than to observe Gabriela in the midst of a group of people. Do you know what she reminds me of? A fragrant rose in a bouquet of artificial flowers.

I have already told you Father, more than once: I’m not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, I’m not going to bury myself in some planter’s kitchen, and I’m not going to be a servant to some doctor or lawyer in Ilhéus. I want to live my own life. When I finish school at the end of the year, I want to go to work in an office

...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.

Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.

Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.

That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.

The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .

...a person's value does not rest on outward appearances, but on his true merits, what he really is.

Does truth lie in the everyday events, the daily incidents, in the pettiness and vulgarity most people’s lives are compounded of, or does the truth have its abode in the dream it is given us to dream to flee our sad human condition?

En las plantaciones, los trabajadores casan hasta con un pedazo de palo si viste polleras. Para tener mujer en casa, para poder acostarse con ella, también para poder conversar. La mujer presta muchos servicios, usted ni siquiera se imagina. Ayuda hasta en la pollítica. Le da hijos a uno, impone respeto. Para lo demás, están las mujerzuelas

Friends, we have a hero living among us.

Happiness is pretty boring, hard to take - in a word, a pain in the neck.

Not even God who made us all can kill everybody at once. He kills people one by one, and the more he kills the more people are gonna be born and grow up and go on being born and growing up and mixing, and no son-of-a-bitch is gonna stop 'em!