“We all give up great expectations along the way.”
More from Carlos Ruiz Zafón on Life
“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.”
“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.”
“Few things are more deceptive than memories.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn...”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Paulo Coelho
13 quotes“And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone a...”
Viktor Frankl
13 quotes“Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”