Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

the same question arose in every soul: "For what, for whom, must I kill and be killed?"... p982

I do everything in this life-or-death way.

These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.

War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

I have no regrets. I think we did right, and we couldn't have done differently. In wartime, it was a desperate time .... When you are in a war to the death, I don't think you stand around and ask, is it right?

I killed one man to save 100,000.

It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.

Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin, they should never be able to hold up their heads; but they will harbor in their souls little sins, which are piercing and eating them away to inevitable ruin.

What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

Can't make an omelette without killing a few people.

I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.

I had sold my soul for pleasure.

If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.

It might or might not be right to kill, but sometimes it is necessary.

Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.

The choice I mean is to protect our own innocents from the seraphim, instead of slaughtering theirs." "There are no innocent seraphim, said the wolf." "That's what they say when they kill our children.

It's really hard to take that step-not only do I believe in something, I believe in it enough that I'm willing to set my own life on fire and burn it to the ground.

"So you have your price."... "Your soul for a cookie."

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll With all my flesh, and keep my soul.

Is it really worth dying for the person you love?

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.