Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

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.

May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.

It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.

If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.

Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.

The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

Only in the present do things happen.

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.

Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

Life itself is a quotation.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

In my next life I will try to commit more errors.

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.