The 70 best quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

He is one of the best-selling Spanish writers, and in his reflections it is clear why.

Being the most read Spanish writer in the world after Miguel de Cervantes is a merit granted as a result of effort and literary talent. In each one of Carlos Ruiz Zafón's phrases we can find an invitation to explore our critical sense and to our critical sense and to enjoy a classic literature.

Recently, on June 19, 2020, Carlos Ruiz Zafón passed away due to a colon cancer against which he had been fighting for the last years. From Psicología y Mente we want to remember and pay a small tribute to this fantastic Spanish author.

The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game y The Cemetery of the ForgottenThe most representative works of his narrative, and led him to obtain important awards and is considered one of the best known and representative writings of Spain.

The best phrases and reflections of Carlos Ruiz Zafón

In this space we have prepared a compilation of the best phrases of Carlos Ruiz Zafón that reflect his passion for narrative and his thoughts.

I want to be a respectable man again, you know? Not for me, because I don't give a damn about the respect of this orfeón of monkeys that we call humanity, but for her.

This sentence by Carlos Ruiz Zafón expresses the yearning to be in search of personal evolution in the name of love.

I believe only in what I see

In this phrase the position is radical.

3. When there is class, speed is a trifle.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón's phrase, from his work Marina.

4. Its mere presence seemed to me to be a propaganda ploy in favor of the moral emptiness of the universe and the mechanical brutality with which it destroyed the pieces that were no longer useful to them.

A reference to the mystery of how some things can no longer help us.

5. Mother Nature is a great fury

Sometimes nature is not generous with us and puts us in situations that are like a backpack that we carry for the rest of our lives.

6. Good words are vain kindnesses that do not require any sacrifice and are more appreciated than de facto kindnesses.

This phrase by Carlos Ruiz Zafón tells us about the value of expressed benevolence..

7. Life is the mortgage of the soul: even if one goes out with good intentions, moving forward implies committing betrayals, with others or with oneself. There are those who are fortunate enough not to fall too much into it and those who are just a son of a bitch, but we all have the dilemma of whether or not we do the right thing.

A reflection on what we know as free will.

8. Do you like mysteries? I think if you had asked me if I liked arsenic my answer would have been the same.

Mysteries can be fascinating but they also involve an expenditure of energy that if we can avoid it is much better.

9. Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only be truly broken once. The rest are just scratches.

This phrase by Carlos Ruiz Zafón talks about how we learn and overcome experiences.

10. He who truly loves loves in silence, with deeds and never with words.

Actions are what count.

11. There are times and places where being nobody is more honorable than being somebody.

Many times we build an image with unreliable or empty bases.

12. The moment you stop to think if you love someone, you have already stopped loving them forever.

This phrase by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, talks about the fact that doubt regarding love for something is synonymous with insecurity.

13. Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the one who wrote it, and the soul of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it.

A beautiful reflection on the dynamic between author and reader.

14. Books are mirrors: you can only see in them what you already have inside you

A phrase by Carlos Ruiz Zafón that talks about the value of books and how they resonate in us.

15. In an infinite universe, many things escape human reason.

Beautiful reflection on things that are difficult to explain because of their complexity and depth.

16. We exist as long as someone remembers us

We exist because we have been recognized, because we resonate in others. This is probably the most important mark we leave.

17. No one asks about what they prefer to ignore

This quote by Carlos Ruíz Zafón tells us about the comfort zone.

18. A good liar knows that the most effective lie is always a truth from which a key piece has been subtracted.

On how to put together dishonest strategies.

19. sometimes we believe that people are lottery tickets: that they are there to make our absurd illusions come true.

This phrase by Carlos Ruiz deals with situations where people are a means and not an end.

20. Juanito only knows how to fart and the only thing they know how to do is to laugh at them and suck them up. As you can see, the social structure here is not very different from that of the outside world.

This phrase is similar to another one that says that when it rains everyone gets wet, and that is that in some way the things that happen in the context are going to affect us.

21. Most of us have the joy or the misfortune of seeing how life crumbles little by little, without us realizing it.

This phrase of Carlos Ruiz speaks to us in relation to the time that we remain in this world and the passing of time.

22. The one who is very attached to a flock is a sheeple

The spaces where we move, with what we identify and relate to speak about what we are.

23. Literature, at least the good kind, is a science with the Blood of art. Like architecture or music

This phrase by Carlos Ruiz Zafón speaks about his passion for literature.

24. Nothing is fair. The most one can aspire to is that it be logical. Fairness is a rare disease in an otherwise healthy world like an oak tree

Fairness can have an individual look.

25. You don't have to admit it if it jeopardizes your sense of masculinity. I know that you men believe that the size of your stubbornness corresponds to the size of your shame.

On the lack of freedom to show our humanity by living within a certain rule of being part of a so-called group.

26. As a general rule, the more talent one has, the more one doubts that one has it. And vice versa

It is never enough when we are passionate about talent.

27. We spend most of our life dreaming, especially when we are awake.

About dreams consciously built from our heart.

28. The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, by meanness or ignorance, remain encyst in the memory and sooner or later they burn his soul.

This phrase by Carlos Ruiz refers to the consequences on a deeper level, the one that affects our humanity.the one that affects our humanity.

29. Nothing happens by chance, deep down things have a secret plan, even if we do not understand it.

You must be patient with the things that happen to us, we are going to learn something.

30. If people would think a quarter of what they talk, this world would be a paradise.

This phrase reminds us to use reason before giving any kind of opinion.

31. Dear Daniel, the sooner you realize this, the better: Nothing in this filthy life is worth two dollars if you don't have someone to share it with.

The value of money sometimes lies in the reason it is invested.

32. Hating is a talent that is learned over the years.

This phrase by Carlos Ruiz Zafón addresses what we tend to pick up from experiences.

33. We all have a secret hidden under lock and key in the attic of our soul.

About the mysteries that govern our lives.

34. Don't try to change the world, try not to let the world change you.

We must strive to maintain our essence and make it prevail.

35. The lyrics of the song are what we think we understand, but what makes us believe it or not is the music.

Music is the engine of our emotions.

36. Gifts are given for the pleasure of the giver, not for the merit of the receiver.

The act of giving includes putting a little time and energy into satisfying the other.

37. I would like my last memory to be that of that sunrise on the beach and discover that all this time has been nothing more than a long nightmare.

About a desire founded on despair.

38. Nothing important is learned in life. One simply remembers

All learning means an event.

39. Nothing deceives more than memories

Memories sometimes bring all the information of the context in which they occurred, but the circumstances in which they are evoked are never the same.

40. Time has taught me not to lose my hopes, but not to trust them too much, they are cruel and vain, without conscience.

This phrase by Carlos Ruiz Zafón invites us to maintain hope.

41. The difficult thing is not to earn money just like that," he lamented. The difficult thing is to earn it by doing something worthwhile in life.

A reflection on our motivations and dreams.

42. This world will not die of an atomic bomb as the newspapers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, making a joke out of everything, and a bad joke at that.

This phrase by Carlos Ruiz Zafón brings us closer to the real cause of the problems of humanity. the problems of humanity.

43. This is only the beginning. In ten years I will be the apprentice and you will be the master.

In the learning process, evolution is constant.

44. I smiled to myself. Even the worst news is a relief when it is nothing more than a confirmation of something you already knew without wanting to know it.

On maintaining a positive posture in the face of circumstances.

45. You don't know what thirst is until you drink for the first time.

Experiences often create needs.

46. Contemplating a future as wide and luminous as that avenue, and for an instant I thought that there were no other ghosts there than those of absence and loss, and that the light that smiled at me was on loan and only worthwhile as long as I could hold it with my eyes, second by second.

This phrase by Carlos Ruiz talks about expectations.

47. And for lack of words, I bit my voice.

What we keep silent hurts us.

48. Time does to the body what stupidity does to the soul. It rots it

Curious way of relating these elements.

49. Death has these things: it awakens everyone's sentimentality. In front of a coffin, we all see only what is good, or what we want to see.

This phrase is related to situations in which people only rescue the good values that the person who died had. They apply a kind of sanctity to him.

50. For when the reason understands what happened, the wounds in the heart are already too deep.

And it is there where the lessons are born.

51. Time heals everything, I thought, except the truth.

The truth transcends, we cannot run away from it.

52. People with small souls always try to dwarf others.

This phrase by Carlos Ruiz Zafón tells us about petty relationships.

53. I know that you will wait for me and I know that I will recognize you among the people, as I would recognize you even if a thousand years had passed. I have known it for a long time

On how people project themselves on others, it is as if they were already known beforehand.

54. Does the madman know that he is mad, or is it the others who insist on convincing him of his madness in order to safeguard his existence of chimeras?

This sentence makes a reflection about madness from the point of view of the one who experiences it.

55. Money does not buy happiness, but it buys everything else.

Happiness as a pure state but not as satisfaction of needs.

56. To speak is for fools, to remain silent is for cowards and to listen is for the wise.

On the art of listening.

57. And when he smiles it even seems to me that this filthy world has something of future

This phrase of Carlo Ruiz Zafón is a reflection on the effect of the illusion.

58. I leaned over her and ran the skin of her belly with the tip of my finger. Bea dropped her eyelids and eyes and smiled at me, confident and strong. I was seventeen and life was on my lips.

The writer talks about romance.

59. The truth is not found, son. It finds you

About the power that truth wields.

60. The only way to really know a writer is through the trail of ink he leaves behind, that the person you think you see is nothing more than a hollow character, and that the truth is always hidden in fiction.

Many of Carlos Ruiz Zafón's phrases are directed to the relationship between the writer and the writer. the connection between the writer and the reader..

61. Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

Curious reflection of the author about this city that has inspired many artists.

62. They both wondered if it had been the cards that life had served them, or if it had been the way they had played them.

About how mysterious some events are.

63. Women, with notable exceptions, are smarter than we are, or at least more honest with themselves about what they want or don't want. Whether they tell you or the world is another matter. You are facing the enigma of nature. The female, babel and labyrinth. If you let her think, you are lost. Remember: warm heart and cold mind. The seducer's code

Reflection on your perception of feminine power.

64. Destiny doesn't make house calls, you have to go for it.

Don't wait for things to come.

65. The world is very small when you have nowhere to go.

We expand that world when our projects increase.

66. When I die, everything that is mine will be yours, except my dreams.

Dreams carry our personal mark.

67. Allow me to invite you to a glass of wine to toast our mistakes.

Phrase that is part of the book The Angel's Game.

68. The future is not desired, it is deserved

What we build in the present we will have as a reward in the future.

69. It is a mistake to believe that dreams come true without offering anything in return.

Dreams are the result of constant work.

70. He who does not know where he is going will never get anywhere.

It is necessary to always have a port where to run aground.