Barcenas Camilo Quotes

NOTHING MAKES SENSE. Do not look for any sense in things. It is not there. It is you who ascribe it to what you live or get to know. A defeat or a victory is neither a message from the gods nor a trick of fate. Neither means anything - and, if they seem to, it is but an interpretation you yourself make of them - , inasmuch as things in themselves are only indifference and silence. So, do not waste your precious time in looking for signs everywhere around you. Try and interpret happenings, those which bleed and those which make you smile, as maturing experiences. Oh, yes, what is most important: live! ~ Camilo Gomes Jr.

Having all these lies so that you could feel special. It's time to let go of fantasy and imagined problems. It's time to embrace the crude and harsh truths.

That the existents, the discourses, the frameworks, your words, your meanings, and your definitions, all begin to fade, away, again ~ Camilo Garzon

I beat myself a little bit too much sometimes. When you beat yourself a little bit too much, there's little things that make you miserable. ~ Camilo Villegas

I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle. ~ Camilo Villegas

Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable future: the possibility of living beyond what our lifetime allows us to. ~ Camilo Gomes Jr.

Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other. ~ Camilo Jose Cela

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives. ~ Camilo Jose Cela

There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it. ~ Camilo Jose Cela

I'm very competitive, and I want to win. ~ Camilo Villegas

I love to eat a lot, but I try to eat healthy stuff. Especially when you're riding, sometimes I get hooked up with the cycling and when you're riding three, four, five hours, then you can put whatever you want in your body. ~ Camilo Villegas

An inference of perspective,
a glimpse of regularity,
causation of habit,
and the only recurrence:
my faith in you. ~ Camilo Garzon

Am I good enough to be No. 1? Sure, but who's gonna break Tiger's legs? I want to be the best. Can I? Oh, believe me, I will be trying. Hard. You grow up in Colombia, and everything is limited. Then, I come here, and you have everything. A trainer, nutritionist, coach. I'm very lucky. Many doors open, and I have a path to take. ~ Camilo Villegas

If Jesus were alive today, He would be a guerrillero. ~ Camilo Torres Restrepo

Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport. ~ Camilo Villegas

I enjoy every second I'm in the gym. I love to challenge myself, push myself; obviously there's a lot of different routines and a lot of different stuff we do - love cycling, and again, it's part of my lifestyle. ~ Camilo Villegas

I'm not made to philosophize, I don't have the heart for it. My heart is more like a machine for making blood to be spilled in a knife fight... ~ Camilo Jose Cela

I always save a few special outfits for the final rounds of a tournament, because they put me in a more positive mindset and I then make better decisions. ~ Camilo Villegas

Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets. ~ Camilo Villegas

On the hinder slope of the hill two little goatherds are tending a flock of goats; one of them is sitting on a rock whittling a crook out of ash, while the other is trying to coax a few tweets out of a reed flute. ~ Camilo Jose Cela

And then comes the realization. That although a house was taken from you, you can still build a home in a wine jar. ~ Camilo Garzon

I am not, sir, a bad person, though in truth I am not lacking in reasons for being one.
[Sp., Yo, senor, no soy malo, aunque no me faltarian motivos para serlo.] ~ Camilo Jose Cela

I look around and see that many - not all, but many - problems we've got could be solved if our culture simply fostered the habit of reading. Reading books of science, philosophy, history. Reading literature of quality, the sort that touches us because of a more profound reason, such as, for instance, because it's got something to say beyond all the futilities and trifles of life, even while depicting the ordinary in life, at the same time that it says it with style, in a unique, admirable manner. An original one.


We are not a county of readers, notwithstanding. We are the country of football turned into a cult, of guile being ranked high as a cardinal virtue, of Carnival made for exportation. A country where there are more letters in political party acronyms than in all many of our politicians have written in a lifetime. A country where ethics has become a joke theme. Where democracy is but a ridiculous puppet theatre.

Yes, I look around and see that many problems could be solved if we had the habit of reading. But I am not even sure whether there is someone reading these words. ~ Camilo Gomes Jr.

We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression. ~ Camilo Villegas

The point is: have you ever noticed how we crush a cockroach without further worry and feel no remorse in spite of being in fact terminating a life? That's it. We do so because we don't identify ourselves with a cockroach. Because it's very diffent from us. [ ... ] Thinking from that side, I suppose some people tend to do the same towards others. I mean, they see from distance those they don't identify with on the spot, do you get me? It's as if the stranger, who doesn't belong to the same group as we do, was seen as an inferior being ... Almost a cockroach! ~ Camilo Gomes Jr.