Paulo Coelho Quotes

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

What you see is what you see.

When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.

You don't ask about what can be seen.

Facts can obscure the truth.

Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back of a cloud. Cannot you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front--

Everything I can't see / is at least as real as what I can.

Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.

The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing most of what's going on.

Invisible things are the only realities.

Reality is modest, it won't be seen naked.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.

We know that behind every image revealed there is another image more faithful to reality, and in the back of that image there is another, and yet another behind the last one, and so on, up to the true image of that absolute, mysterious reality that no one will ever see.

Some people just see the glory and they don't want to know about the story.

It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.