Jorge Luis Borges Quotes, Thoughts and images
Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.
I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Life itself is a quotation.
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
Only in the present do things happen.
The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.
Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.