Carlos Ruiz Zafon People Quotations

I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.

There are people you remember and people you dream of.

We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors'. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008)

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to medieval savagery and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb...it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything and a lousy joke at that.

I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.

Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.

I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.

Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.

If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.

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

The air seemed poisoned with fear and hatred. People eyed on another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted your stomach.

Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.

You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.

. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

People only disappear when they have somewhere to go