To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and …

- 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 in…

- Juan Ramon Jimenez

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

- 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 am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see, whom at times I manage to visit, and whom at other times I forget; who remains calm an…

- Juan Ramon Jimenez

…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.

- Juan Ramon Jimenez

A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.

- 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 o…

- Juan Ramon Jimenez

My only two weapons: time and silence.

- Juan Ramon Jimenez