Paul Auster Quotes

So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn’t apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

No one's a virgin, life screws us all!

The moment you're born you're done for.

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

Why should I? No one would wish to hurt me.

You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

I don't like it, but I guess things happen that way.

You can't. You just have to.

If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything." and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens."

In the face of pain there are no heroes.

I think everything I do is based on my experience in the world in one way or another.

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach.

What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.

It's just the way things are." she shrugged. "It's no one's fault." "Or everyone's.

Sometimes there is no way to hold your life together. Sometimes things just have to fall apart.

Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen... Growing up takes longer than you think.

When you're 20, you think the whole world is talented, but whenyou get older, you realize the opposite is true.

Life doesn't often turn out the way we think it will, does it?

I've seen men die because they were sure that what should not happen,would not. -Robert Jordan(The eye of the world,Wheel of time)

Not everything comes together in the best way ever every day. It just doesn't.