Quote

Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.

Jose Marti

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
Activist
Essayist
Journalist
Linguist
Painter
Poet
Politician
Revolutionary
Soldier
Translator
Writer
Havana
Cuba
Jose Marti
Grief
Suffering
Doe
Real
Needs
Men
Griefs
Creates
Suffer

More quotes by Jose Marti

Image
He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
Jose Marti
Image
He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
Jose Marti
Image
Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an isolated system of doctrines and whisper in their ear (instead of the sweet message of love) the barbarous gospel of hate.
Jose Marti
Image
I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.
Jose Marti
Image
One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
Jose Marti
Image
Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.
Jose Marti
Image
A selfish man is a thief.
Jose Marti
Image
Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
Jose Marti
Image
Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.
Jose Marti
Image
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.
Jose Marti
Image
I have lived in the monster and I know its insides and my sling is the sling of David.
Jose Marti
Image
It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
Jose Marti
Image
The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom the country that wants to die sells only to one country , and the country that wants to survive sells to more than one.
Jose Marti
Image
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.
Jose Marti
Image
Others go to bed with their mistresses I with my ideas.
Jose Marti
Image
Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
Jose Marti
Image
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
Jose Marti
Image
The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
Jose Marti
Image
Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
Jose Marti
Image
Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.
Jose Marti