Quote

Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

Paulo Coelho

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Paulo Coelho
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: August 24
Actor
Blogger
Composer
Lyricist
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Researcher
Science Fiction Writer
Songwriter
Writer
Rio
Paulo Coelho de Souza
Without
Week
Homelessness
Many
Food
Withstand
Years
Worst
Sufferings
Suffering
Eleven
Water
Weeks
Two
Torture
Human
Loneliness
Humans
Beings
Tortures

More quotes by Paulo Coelho

Image
Be realistic: always wish the impossible.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.
Paulo Coelho
Image
If you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.
Paulo Coelho
Image
The only way to save our dreams is by being generous with ourselves.
Paulo Coelho
Image
For the Warrior of the Light, there are no abstractions.
Paulo Coelho
Image
You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Join with those who sing, tell stories, talk pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious, and can prevent others from becoming paralysed by depression, loneliness and difficulties.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on.
Paulo Coelho
Image
A Warrior knows that a great dream is made up of many different things, just as the light from the sun is the sum of its millions of rays.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Never looking anyone in the eye when you're traveling on public transport, in case it's interpreted as a sign that you're trying to get off with them.
Paulo Coelho
Image
We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Duty never stopped anyone from following their dreams.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Every moment of searching is a moment of encounter.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is.
Paulo Coelho
Image
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. To love somebody isn`t just a strong feeling. It is a decision, a judgment, and a promise.
Paulo Coelho
Image
My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything I have now, however interesting it might seem, doesn't really excited me.
Paulo Coelho
Image
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Paulo Coelho
Image
Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.
Paulo Coelho