Best 30 quotes of Nelson Rodrigues on MyQuotes

Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.

Any individual is greater than the Milky Way.

A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.

Every shy person is a potential sex offender.

I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.

In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.

In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.

It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.

I won't stand for censorship, not even from Jesus Christ.

Love is impossible without bite marks.

Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!

Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.

Not all women like being beaten up. Only the normal ones.

Only the prophets see the obvious.

Saturday is an illusion.

The audience will only truly respect you when they have no idea what is going on.

The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.

The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity.

To love is to be faithful to those who cheat on us.

To save the audience we must fill the stage with murderers, adulterers and madmen; in short, we must fire a salvo of monsters at them. They are our monster which we will temporarily free ourselves from only to face another day.

Unanimity is always stupid.

Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil.

Any boy seems, nowadays, a tried and wicked 47 years old dwarf.

Any love is condemned to suffer a murderous persecution. We are impotent of feeling and do not forgive other people's love. So don't let anyone know that you love.

Brazil is very unpopular in Brazil.

Marriage is the ultimate solitude with minimal privacy.

Only cynicism redeems a wedding. It takes a lot of cynicism for a couple to reach silver wedding.

Perverted is any ordinary person caught in the act.

The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist.

We are not on our fours, howling in the woods, only because guilt saves us.