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Lives Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed…
- Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book…
- People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
- Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
- In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who…
- 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.
- All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral…
- It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means…
- We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
- Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly…
- Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used…
- It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming,…
More Lives Quotes
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,… — Chinua Achebe
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of… — David Attenborough
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. — Marcus Aurelius
- Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. — Marcus Aurelius