“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.”
More from Carlos Ruiz Zafón on Life
“Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to”
“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough”
“Sometimes memories follow you wherever you go-you don't need to take them with you.”
“Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective.”
“I've learnt that solitude is sometimes a path that leads to peace”
“I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.”
“Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself.”
“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”
“We all give up great expectations along the way.”
“Few things are more deceptive than memories.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he h...”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smi...”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you ar...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.”
Paulo Coelho
13 quotes“I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”