Paulo Coelho Quotes

I am worried that the next generation will not be able to have a real conversation.

I love to engage with people who come to see us.

Now, I'm a pretty fast and avid reader. But you can't learn the same things in a book or on the Internet that you can in a personal talk with somebody.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

Conversation is a game of circles.

Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive.

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

I always like to tell a story.

Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.

As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew.

There is nothing I hate more than meeting someone who has forgotten the art of conversing.

I actually like talking.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

I like talking to people.

I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction.

People talk to pass the time, share information, and entertain each other.

I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.

Writing is too lonely. I'd rather talk.

Telling stories and having them received is so important. That dialogue is everything. I tell my students all the time that what separates us as human beings is our ability to hold stories. Our narrative history. There is so much power in that. Storytelling is our human industry.

Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.

In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.