Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Men, Animal, Moral

• 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

• After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Football, Wall, Book

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

• All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Men, Animal

• [H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Years, Bye, Dawn

• It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Mean, Certainty Of Death, Void

• The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Mind, Needs, Tickets

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