The 70 best phrases of Antonio Gala
Antony Gala (Ciudad Real, 1936) is one of the most prolific and prominent writers in Spanish literature of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century.
Playwright and poet, already at a young age he showed a great predilection for reading and the academic world, graduating in economics, philosophy and letters, political science and law.
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Great phrases by Antonio Gala
Communist and freethinker, he garnered more than 500 awards for his magnificent and multifaceted work. We review the life and thought of one of the most respected Spaniards throughout the planet.
We are going to know the best phrases of Antonio Gala and some of the most witty famous quotes from him.
1. Those who are useless for anything else dedicate themselves to politics.
True to his skeptical and ironic style, he thus criticized the actors of Spanish politics.
2. It happens to power like the walnut tree, it does not let anything grow under its shade...
On the political structure and its yoke.
3. The bull bellowed in pain, bellowed in pain, filled the air, cried out to heaven in vain. The laborers made him dizzy with their cloaks and he suddenly looked at me, with the innocence of all animals reflected in his face, but also with an imploration.
Against the barbarity of bullfighting.
4. Someone has said that the moon is so pale because it lives exclusively at night.
Great poetic phrase from the great city of Real.
5. Each one is his own heir, wrote Rabelais referring to the Greek Kalends. Well, we have come to them. Now nothing is as it was. Now we face the big problem: we are alone and we have to choose. We are, in theory, free; we are, in theory: masters of our destiny; we have to search for our own identity through our particular experiences. Such is our first need; be yourself. And it is better that we be without help from others, so mediating. Being yourself and being happy: what a project of life. Perhaps the source of happiness, if it has one, is within us. Perhaps it consists of preserving one's own self, not another, and never being another no matter how good it seems. Perhaps it consists of reflexively and docilely accepting oneself as one is, and unfolding.
A maxim to apply to our day to day.
6. Love is the poetry of the senses. But there are bad poems...
just as there is toxic love and uninhabitable.
7. The perfect love is a friendship with erotic moments.
This is how Antonio Gala described the concept of love.
8. The pain is stronger among the stronger. Like cancer.
Unfortunately, the strong tend to endure more levels of pain and suffering.
9. The writer is often like a racehorse that has lost its jockey and no longer knows why he is running or where the goal is and, nevertheless, he is required to keep running even though he does not know where or why. What reason.
A metaphor to understand the professional life of a writer.
10. He who does not love is always right: he is the only thing he has.
Devoid of love, the human being only finds compassion in his daily misery.
11. All springs fit in a rose.
The part for the whole.
12. This society gives us facilities to make love, but not to fall in love...
Great reflection on today's society.
13. The dictatorship has armored because it has to overcome. Democracy presents itself naked because it has to convince.
One of Antonio Gala's most applauded phrases.
14. Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.
Nothing should take away our joy for more than a couple of minutes.
15. Religion should not exist. It should be forbidden by God, but since it doesn't exist...
A phrase that he uttered during an interview with Jesús Quinteros on Canal Sur.
16. Calling a rite as bloody as a bullfight a party is the opposite of calling the bloodless rite of the mass a sacrifice...
Another reflection on his opposition to the murder of bulls.
17. Nothing is recognized worldwide other than wars, hatred... not the beauty
Her passion was to find beauty in the little things of everyday life.
18. No one will be able to say that a warm and happy nest will give of itself very great people. The maladjustment to the imperfect is what improves man.
19. I am not a pessimist. I am a well-informed optimist.
Ironic reflection on optimism and pessimism.
20. Our society has reached a point where it no longer worships the golden calf, but the gold of the calf.
On the difficulty of albirar the reality.
21. It is instructive to see how the nationalists make their own bed, at the cost of insomnia for the rest of the country. No honest mind will understand such attitudes. To prolong the period of blackmail, both the shopkeeper Pujol and Father Arzalluz encourage González to refuse to the motion of confidence (even threatening not to support him in it if he initiates it) as well as not to advance the generals. Rebus sic stantibus, they will continue to milk the cow. They do not care, however (sic), to be part of the central government, although not "of pupils". And they say it with their small mouths, while with the other they speak to Aznar, who is his counterpart... Then, with such representatives, they will want Catalans and Basques who love them.
Talking about several Spanish government presidents.
22. Everything a woman really wants-a dog, a man, God, anything-she wants him like a son...
If love is true, it can only be this kind of unconditional fondness.
23. All progress that is not human is not progress.
Interesting reflection by Antonio Gala.
24. Home is, where somebody waits for you.
This is how you recognize a home.
25. Live not in accordance with the received ideals, but with your aspirations, with your most vehement intuition.
The moral foundations for a full life.
26. The homeland does not exist without the love of its children.
Nationalism is based on love between compatriots.
27. When you collaborate with a madman or discuss his hobbies, you fall into madness.
Overanalyzing the behaviors of others can make us fall into the trap.
28. Good governments are known when what they do is worth more than what their opponents say.
A maxim by Antonio Gala for good politics.
29. There are things that should not be forgiven. If God forgives them, there he is. I forgive with difficulty.
A point of grudge can be functional for life.
30. The privileged will always risk their complete destruction rather than give up even a small part of their privileges.
About an unequal society.
31. The book is a pole that allows unimaginable leaps in space and time; the witness of the most beautiful relay race; an infallible and intimate silent friend.
This is how Antonio Gala praises literature.
32. I understand that the dying attract prizes.
An ironic reflection on the more than 500 awards and recognitions obtained.
33. Until the man discovers the feminine side of him, he will not feel complete and situated.
Declared homosexual, Antonio Gala spoke like this about masculinity.
34. I'm one of the best-selling writers in this country... and the least read.
Selling a lot does not mean being widely read.
35. Perhaps love is just that: the gesture of approaching and forgetting. Each one remains himself, but there are two bodies that merge.
Referring to the most basic elements of love.
36. I love my little dogs, whose barking I could distinguish from afar and whose mood I can predict, just like they do mine. My dogs and those of others, aren't they people?
Gala extends the meaning of the word person to dogs because of their mental abilities.
About his love for animals.
37. On this beach I loved you so much that one breath for both of us was enough.
More lyricism embodied in this way of expressing the meaning of love.
38. Don't pretend anymore, don't hide the excessive hunger for me that burns in your eyes.
An invitation to let go of inhibitions.
39. When love begins, there is a moment when God is surprised to have concocted something so beautiful.
Love can be related to the divine.
40. Melancholy, like sadness, is a feeling that stains. Joy seems to me the gift where we are.
A reflection on melancholy.
41. Embrace me in your wings so that no other air touches me but your breath, from which I live and die.
The romantic and tragic component of this way of expressing himself becomes evident.
42. People have a strange predilection for me. Because he perceives in me the invalidity, the loneliness, and then he loves me in a special way, in a protective way.
Vulnerability can also generate attraction, according to Gala.
43. Hush, lovers, and occupy the lip with the kiss. Do not utter vain words while your heart is sought in another chest, panting and poor like yours, already at the edge of dawn.
Another expression of artistic sensitivity based on the theme of love.
44. To be old is to be overcome by the bitter suspicion that no one cares.
A way of seeing old age emphasizing some social phenomena.
45. My autobiography... I should have started it recently, but I haven't started it. It was going to be titled Self-Portrait with a Landscape in the Background, but in the end it's going to be called Don't Move, I Know the Way Out.
Humor makes an appearance once again in the reflections of this author.
46. I have always been surrounded by women, I am very attracted to the feminine soul.
Detail about the personal life of this artist.
47. I have been vulnerable. I've been easy to hurt. I've been easy, and fragile. I have felt very deep wounds that for others would have gone unnoticed.
A vital trajectory full of imperfections.
48. Without you, neither bread nor wine, nor life, nor hunger, nor the juicy color of the morning make any sense and are useless.
A single person can change everything.
49. Since you are invulnerable to oblivion, violate me now, love, undo my chest and nestle in it, my demon and angel.
Love can become anchored in memories.
50. Victory hurts you, and docilely carry your destiny of love, my delicate and bloody life.
An elegant soliloquy.
51. Your job is daily and decisive: while the sun shines, you will be hot; as long as life lasts, you will be alive.
Great passions can also be reflected in everyday life.
52. It was by the sea, at midnight. I knew that God was there, and that the sand and you and the sea and me and the moon were God. And I loved it.
Description full of feeling.
53. I am interested in women. In addition, the woman is the one who reads the most. My protagonists are always women. I love them more, I admire them more, and they tell me confidences that they don't tell other women.
About her appreciation for women in general.
54. Yes, I think in the abstract, that is something that literally makes me lose sleep, despite the pills I take.
A way of reading reality based on abstract ideas.
55. It's just that I don't care about Cela's ass. Whatever happened to him in the ass is his business.
One more example of his propensity for the irreverent.
56. It was winter; You arrived and it was summer. When true summer comes, what will become of us?
Metaphors that talk about love and affection.
57. Who could flaunt, like a bridle, the peerless rainbow of your gaze from your light to my black fall.
Another of Antonio Gala's phrases full of romanticism.
58. The truth is that this country is ruled by a collection of fools.
A not very hopeful vision of the Spanish political panorama.
59. I would like to kick the theater to wake it up.
Complaints about conformism and stagnation of this type of art.
60. I have a great capacity for admiration, surprise and curiosity, which are the three things that most define childhood.
Antonio Gala talks about several of his personal characteristics.
61. I do not aspire to anything, not even to be an usher in the Ministry of Culture, and I care very little about rulers.
About the type of motivations that move him.
62. Let no judge declare my innocence, because, in this long-term process, I will only seek the life sentence of your embrace.
Emphasizing the tragic character that love sometimes adopts.
63. The woman's is the house, where the man is a guest.
A way of looking at gender roles.
64. Rajoy always made me laugh, but now he makes me feel sorry.
About who he was president of the government of Spain.
65. Honest politicians get out of the way when suspicion falls on them.
Another of Gala's opinions on politics.
66. How to eat without you, without the pious habit of your wings that refresh the air and renew the light?
Another example of lyricism by this playwright.
67. I am not a monarchist. But I understand the work the King has done and I feel great personal sympathy for him.
This artist separates personal value from political value.
68. I love the word fuss, it seems like a nickname for a slut. Look at her, here comes La Alharaca!
A sample of his irreverent sense of humor.
69. It is not about adding years to life, but about giving life to years.
A defense of vitalism.
70. I wouldn't want to think if I didn't think that, deprived of your beauty, I would forget myself if I forgot you.
One of Antonio Gala's most romantic phrases.