Top 53 Quotes by Eduardo Galeano

About Eduardo Galeano

These are some quotes by Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano Journalist, who lived between September 3, 1940 and April 13, 2015.

The diversity of life is so stimulating for me.

The diversity of life is so stimulating for me.

Eduardo Galeano

When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person.

When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe, sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, just like a person, a little person.

Eduardo Galeano

The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.

Eduardo Galeano

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.

Eduardo Galeano

The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

Eduardo Galeano

I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.

I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.

Eduardo Galeano

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

Eduardo Galeano

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

Eduardo Galeano

The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.

The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.

Eduardo Galeano

I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer.

Eduardo Galeano

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