Rosario Ferre famous quotes

Death is a woman, and for that reason she's courageous and just, and never makes distinctions between mortals; she'll crush the ignorant, the arrogant, and the wise alike under her icy foot.
-- Rosario Ferre

#Crush #Death #Wise

Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them.
-- Rosario Ferre

#Country #Hero #Leader

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral.
-- Rosario Ferre

#Stories #Building #Chapel

Sometimes it's necessary to believe in love, even if it doesn't exist.
-- Rosario Ferre

#Believe #Sometimes #Believe In Love

Death is the twin of love and mother of us all, she struggles equally for men and women and never accepts differences of caste or class. It's death that quickens us and brings us forth on sheets of love, clasped between sleep and wakefulness and barely breathing for a spell, and thus my death shall be like everybody else's death, as majestic and as pathetic as a king or a beggar's, neither more nor less.
-- Rosario Ferre

#Death #Mother #Kings

Our needs cancel each other out, and that's as solid a base for love as any.
-- Rosario Ferre

#Needs

our love for the dead, like a floating iceberg, can only be measured by the depths of our resentments.
-- Rosario Ferre

#Depth #Floating #Our Love

When a sailor overcomes crushing adversity, there's a massive sense of accomplishment.

When God wants to do an impossible task, he takes an impossible man, and he crushes him.

The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable.

Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.

Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.