Juan Ramon Jimenez Quotes

Enjoy the top 13 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Juan Ramon Jimenez.

“Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so.”
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“A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.”

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

“The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.”

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

“I unpetalled you, like a rose, to see your soul, and I didn't see it. But everything around -horizons of land and of seas-, everything, out to the infinite, was filled with a fragrance, enormous and alive.”

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

“Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely!”

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

“My only two weapons: time and silence.”

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

“Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so.”

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

“A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.”

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

“Every country should realize that its turn at world domination, domination because its rights coincided more or less with the character or progress of the epoch, must terminate with the change brought about by this progress.”

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

“Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after the catastrophe which we feel and think is universal, a catastrophe resulting from an excess of useless dynamism of useless progress, of useless realism, of useless technology, after this an unattainable democracy is to be reached through the conception and realization of a new romanticism.”