Nelson Rodrigues Quotes

The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist.

I won't stand for censorship, not even from Jesus Christ.

The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.

Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil.

A thunderous boo is one thousand times stronger, nobler, and more powerful than a standing ovation. Admiration corrupts.

Adulthood does not exist. Man is an eternal child.

Love is eternal. If it ends, it wasn't love.

Saturday is an illusion.

To love is to be faithful to those who cheat on us.

Marriage is the ultimate solitude with minimal privacy.

In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.

Only the prophets see the obvious.

We are not on our fours, howling in the woods, only because guilt saves us.

Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!

Every shy person is a potential sex offender.

Not all women like being beaten up. Only the normal ones.

Husbands shouldn't be the last to know. Husbands should never know!

Love is impossible without bite marks.

Unanimity is always stupid.

I am, and have always been, a pornographic angel.

It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.

Brazil is very unpopular in Brazil.

If people knew the sexual intimacy of each other, no one would greet each other on the street.

I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.

Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.

If life turns her back on you, grab her ass.

The keyhole is my lens as a writer.

Only cynicism redeems a wedding. It takes a lot of cynicism for a couple to reach silver wedding.

Any boy seems, nowadays, a tried and wicked 47 years old dwarf.

Money buys everything, even true love.

The audience will only truly respect you when they have no idea what is going on.

In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.

Perverted is any ordinary person caught in the act.

The young have all the same flaws adults do. Plus one: immaturity.

I only believe in those who can still blush.

Any individual is greater than the Milky Way.