The best Quotes by Federico García Lorca

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fck up for a minute and comfortably share the silence.

You don't talk much... I like you!

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?

It's great to share silence with someone else.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Women have to be able to remain silent. A woman without silence is like a car without breaks.

It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.

There is a wall of silence against women and violence, and every time a woman speaks out it breaks a crack in that wall.

When you have something to say, silence is a lie.

When one is never invited to speak one learns instead to... observe.

It's like you're homesick for a place that doesn't even exist.

I know I'm not worthy of you. But I just can't help loving you. It's like wanting to touch a star - you know you'll never reach it, but you just gotta keep trying.

Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other.

Too often, the thing you want most is the one thing you can't have. Desire leaves us heartbroken, it wears us out. Desire can wreck your life. And as tough as wanting something can be, the people who suffer the most are those who don't know what they want.

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

Weeping willow with your tears running down, why do you always weep and frown? Is it because he left you one day? is it because he could not stay? On your branches he would swing, do you long for the happiness that day would bring? He found shelter in your shade. You thought his laughter would never fade. Weeping willow, stop your tears. There is something to calm you fears. You think death has ripped you forever apart. But I know he'll always be in your heart.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

Humans had always been better at killing than any other living thing.

"And what if there's nothing in there?"
"You die and there's nothing beyond that. Nothing. Nothing remains. Someone might remember you for a little while after but not for long."

There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.

The number of places in paradise is limited; only in hell is entry open to all.