top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Psychology quotes
"My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free."
"We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember."
"Negative thoughts about ourselves steals our energy."
"Nostalgia is your brain's way of photoshopping the blemishes of your past."
"A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man."
"Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious."
"I have found that as your wisdom and maturity develop, the number of other people you blame for your own circumstances shrinks."
"A person with a victim complex is unable to set goals and achieve them independently."
"It is not until you find yourself lost in the silence that you will learn to let go because everyone has let go of you."
"Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people. Instead, they hide behind the word "polite" because they have low self esteem or hidden agendas. Sadly, they impolitely confuse the hell out of everyone, send mixed signals, which then makes people question their sanity and motives."
Explore more quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"We are willing to believe anything other than the truth."
"Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passion for dogma more than a good antagonist. And the more unlikely, the better. It's difficult to hate an idea. It's much easier to hate someone with a recognizable face whom we can blame for everything that makes us feel uncomfortable. It doesn't have to be an individual character. It could be a nation, a race, a group anything."
"The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction."
"Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which nevertheless survive in the memory of generations as the only chronicle of the past. It is as if the people who inhabit the streets, inspired by some mysterious wisdom, relalise that the true history of Calcutta has always been written in the invisible tales of its spirits and unspoken curses."
"We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake."
"Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond."
bottom of page