Roberto Bolano Quotes - Page 2

Quotes about:

• There's no place on earth with more dumb girls per square foot than a college in California.

  Roberto Bolano

  Girl, College, California

  5 Copy quote

• Literature is the product of a strange rain of blood, sweat, semen, and tears.

  Roberto Bolano

  Rain, Blood, Sweat

  5 Copy quote

• …I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

  Roberto Bolano

  Saws, Should, Feels

  4 Copy quote

• If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.

  Roberto Bolano

  Expectations, Want, What You Want

  7 Copy quote

• I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.

  Roberto Bolano

  Men, Prison, Subtle

  8 Copy quote

• I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.

  Roberto Bolano

  Telling The Truth, Decided, Ifs

  4 Copy quote

• When I was done traveling, I returned convinced of one thing: we're nothing.

  Roberto Bolano

  Done, One Thing, Convinced

  4 Copy quote

• If life is misery, why do we endure it?

  Roberto Bolano

  Misery, Life Is, Endure

  4 Copy quote

• Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.

  Roberto Bolano

  Book, Waiting, World

  4 Copy quote

• In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

  Roberto Bolano

  Suicide, Political, Climate

  11 Copy quote

• Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better

  Roberto Bolano

  Love Is, Something Better

  4 Copy quote

• I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their souls, I steal into their hearts, I scrutinize their most fundamental beliefs, I scan their irrational impulses, their unspeakable emotions, I sleep in their lungs during the summer and their muscles during the winter, and all of this I do without the least effort, without intending to, without asking or seeking it out, without constraints, driven only by love and devotion.

  Roberto Bolano

  Summer, Dream, Sleep

  4 Copy quote

• The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.

  Roberto Bolano

  Thinking, Secret, Stories

  9 Copy quote

• The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.

  Roberto Bolano

  Children, Age, Veins

  4 Copy quote

• Reading is more important than writing.

  Roberto Bolano

  Reading, Writing, Important

  4 Copy quote

• We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

  Roberto Bolano

  Book, Reading, Ends

  "Last Evenings on Earth". Book by Roberto Bolaño, 2006.

  8 Copy quote

• For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.

  Roberto Bolano

  Dream, Two, Sound

  4 Copy quote

• No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.

  Roberto Bolano

  Secret, Attention, World

  7 Copy quote

• The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.

  Roberto Bolano

  Flower, Sunset, Sky

  37 Copy quote

• We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?

  Roberto Bolano

  Jobs, Artist, Good Job

  6 Copy quote

• Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

  Roberto Bolano

  Sunset, Butterfly, Night

  8 Copy quote

• One should read Borges more.

  Roberto Bolano

  Borges, Should

  7 Copy quote

• I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.

  Roberto Bolano

  Relax, And Love, Nerves

  9 Copy quote

• Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another.

  Roberto Bolano

  Past, Two, Rivers

  6 Copy quote

• When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.

  Roberto Bolano

  Grief, Skulls, Broken

  4 Copy quote

Page 2 of 3

First

← Prev

1

2

3

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin