18 quotes
Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.
What is truly unbearable is that the person one recalls as part of the future should suddenly become the past.
Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí [Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me (1994)
Everything persists and continues on its own, even if you yourself decide to withdraw.
Tu rostro mañana, 2. Baile y sueño [Your Face Tomorrow, Vol. 2: Dance and Dream (2004)
Every illness is caused by something which is not an illness.
Corazón tan blanco [A Heart So White (1992)
Never dismiss ideas born of the imagination, Jack, you only get to them after much thought, much reflection and study, and considerable boldness.
Tu rostro mañana, 2. Baile y sueño [Your Face Tomorrow, Vol. 2: Dance and Dream (2004)
Lies are lies, but all lies have their moment to be believed.
Tu rostro mañana, 1. Fiebre y lanza [Your Face Tomorrow, Vol. 1: Fever and Spear (2002)
According to us, the night belongs to the previous day.
Corazón tan blanco [A Heart So White (1992)
We always condemn ourselves by what we say, not by what we do.
Todas las Almas [All Souls (1989)
However dead a past love may be, new lovers are much...upset by them.
Todas las Almas [All Souls (1989)
He had an ability to surprise, as does every major idiot, and, of course, to irritate, all in the space of a single second.
Tu rostro mañana, 2. Baile y sueño [Your Face Tomorrow, Vol. 2: Dance and Dream (2004)
The person recounting here and now what he saw and what happened to him then is not the same person who saw those things and to whom those things happened.
Todas las Almas [All Souls (1989)
This is just a stopping-off point for me but I'll be stopping long enough to make it worth my while finding what people call 'someone to love'.
Todas las Almas [All Souls (1989)
A fool with the mind of a detective is an intelligent fool, a logical fool, the worst kind, because men's logic, far from compensating for their foolishness, only duplicates it, triplicates it, makes it dangerous.
Todas las Almas [All Souls (1989)
...possessed of more self-knowledge, which is the kind of knowledge that makes people attractive.
Todas las Almas [All Souls (1989)
People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to lose. It's always the most conventional things that contain the largest measure of madness.
Corazón tan blanco [A Heart So White (1992)
Everything is there on view, in fact, everything is visible very early on in a relationship just as it is in all honest, straightforward stories, you just have to look to see it, one single moment encapsulates the germ of many years to come, of almost our whole history.
Tu rostro mañana, 1. Fiebre y lanza [Your Face Tomorrow, Vol. 1: Fever and Spear (2002)
Real togetherness in married couples and indeed in any couple comes from words, not just the words that are spoken – spoken voluntarily – but the words one doesn't keep to oneself – at least not without the intervention of the will.
Corazón tan blanco [A Heart So White (1992)
We tend to be incredibly distrustful of our own perceptions once they have passed and find no outside confirmation or ratification, we sometimes renounce our memory and end up telling ourselves inexact versions of what we witnessed, we do not trust ourselves as witnesses.
Tu rostro mañana, 1. Fiebre y lanza [Your Face Tomorrow, Vol. 1: Fever and Spear (2002)