I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Best thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“There is nothing very remarkable about being immortal; with the exception of mankind, all creatures are immortal, for they know nothing of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The steps a man takes from the day of his birth until that of his death trace in time an inconcievable figure.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation." [As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Deeds which populate the dimensions of space and which reach their end when someone dies may cause us wonderment, but one thing,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Emma dropped the letter. The first thing she felt was a sinking in her stomach and a trembling in her knees; then,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Let not the rash marble risk garrulous breaches of oblivion's omnipotence, in many words recalling name, renown, events, birthplace. All those glass… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“A: Absorbed in our discussion of immortality, we had let night fall without lighting the lamp, and we couldn't see each other's… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Someone A man worn down by time, a man who does not even expect death (the proofs of death are statistics and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I cannot lament the loss of a love or a friendship without meditating that one loses only what one really never had.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death . — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It seemed incredible that this day, a day without warnings or omens, might be that of my implacable death. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Death (or its allusion) makes men precious and pathetic. They are moving because of their phantom condition; every act they execute may… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“There is a river whose waters give immortality; somewhere there must be another river whose waters take it away. The number of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Ars Poetica To gaze at the river made of time and water And recall that time itself is another river, To know… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I believe in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every"… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
![“When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation." [As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges , The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town , The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]” quote by Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/85a/jorge-luis-borges-275_books_when-writers-die-they-become-books-which_1235779.jpg)
