Inspirational Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafón — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.”

“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.”

“It is a part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means, be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our lives, or the absence of meaning. These are basic and extremely simple aspects of existence, but our limitations prevent us from responding in an unequivocal way and for that reason we generate an emotional response, as a defense mechanism. It's pure biology.”

“I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever.”

“We all give up great expectations along the way.”

“Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.”

“There's nothing here. Nothing at all.'”

“I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.”

“Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.”

“The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ...”

“The dead never go to their own funeral.”

“Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte. (Sempere)”

“We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.”

“that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.”

“There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.”

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”

“Don't be bashful; we're among gentlemen. It's a known fact that we men are the missing link between the pirate and the pig.”

“If there is a god, or hundreds of them, I hope they will forgive me for the harm I may have inflicted on you by telling you exactly what happened.”

“Few things are more deceptive than memories.”

“Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.”

“People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.”