Paulo Coelho Quotes

I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.

I don't fear death. If it happens, it was meant to happen.

Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame.

Nothing lasts forever. That's the tragedy and the miracle of existence - that everything is impermanent. Everything changes. All we can do is make the best of the time we have. And go down shooting, naturally.

SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY? “I too cannot be cheated,” snapped Fate.

But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Time brings all things to pass.

All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down to the ocean and drown. And life awaits man as the sea awaits the river.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.

The two grand tyrants of the Earth, Time and Chance.

Everything happens for a reason, so you shouldn't get wound up.

You can't change what time has in store for you, as the only constant that I've known is change.

I don't want him to live forever, and I know that he's not going to live forever whether I want him to or not.