Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Ones
Possible
Age
Nothing
Redeemed
Must
Reaches
Men
Expensive
Vices
Otherwise
More quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
None of us are what we once were.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I don't think they would give my life meaning. I do think of the books as my children, though. Whatever is inside of me, I put into my books.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
That's what happens when people reach old age nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Memories are worse than bullets.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
