Javier Marías Quotes

11 quotes in 256 categories

• Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.
• Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.
• Illusions are important. What you foresee or what you remember can be as important as what really happens.
• Superstition is just another form of thought like any other, a form that accentuates and regulates the association of ideas, it's an exacerbation, an illness,…
• People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to…
• We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.
• We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live life not according…
• The truth never shines forth, as the saying goes, because the only truth is that which is known to no one and which remains untransmitted,…
• One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.
• I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even…
• Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids…

Browse Javier Marías Quotes by Category