Paulo Coelho Quotes

People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment. At the campfire they put the usual fraction on exhibit, and listen to their own silent gibber about how they're feeling and how they're going down. We've been there. Death helps. Death gives us something to do. Because it's a fulltime job looking the other way.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive feels absurd.

Do I want to die from the inside out or the outside in?

Death Is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.

You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

When you don't believe in anything except not dying, you don't really believe in anything.

If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die

Life is like a concentration camp... you can't leave without dying.

You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind shivered as his body had when he had wakened in the cold nights and thrust his hands between his thighs to keep warm. It will be a long night, he thought.

Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.

Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.

I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still.

Death, only, renders hope futile.

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

Living, it's awful for me.

I think portraying human beings trying to hold on to their humanity against pretty much certain odds that they'll die horribly in some way someday, and that they'll face horrible things along the way, I don't know - I think that's a beautiful thing. It's a wonderful thing.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.