Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Book, Soul

• Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Inspirational, Running, Book

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.16, Penguin

• Waiting is the rust of the soul.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Waiting, Soul, Rust

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.298, Penguin

• The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Children, Memories, Heart

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.161, Penguin

• If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Sweet, Winning, Thinking

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.130, Penguin

• A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never forget the sweet poison of vanity in his blood and the belief that, if he succeeds in not letting anyone discover his lack of talent, the dream of literature will provide him with a roof over his head, a hot meal at the end of the day, and what he covets the most: his name printed on a miserable piece of paper that surely will outlive him. A writer is condemned to remember that moment, because from then on he is doomed and his soul has a price.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Sweet, Blood

• Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Sacrifice, Men, Soul

• I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Memories, Ocean, Book

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.79, Penguin

• A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Children, Growing Up, Father

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.178, Penguin

• Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Blood, House, Soul

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.190, Penguin

• People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  People, Soul, Trying

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2012). “The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel”, p.14, Harper Collins

• How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Silence, Soul, Needs

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.388, Penguin

• I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Reading, Imagination, Soul

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.36, Penguin

• His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That all his characters were himself.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Character, Soul, Stories

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.164, Penguin

• I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins who want to tell us what is good and what is bad. Every book has a soul ... and I believe every book is worth saving from either bigotry or oblivion.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Believe, Book, Soul

• Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Hope, Soul, Lost

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2012). “The Prisoner of Heaven”, p.78, Hachette UK

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