Fernando Vallejo

"Health is a brief respite before inevitable illness."

"Patience is the virtue of those too weak to act."

"Imagination is the prison where we escape to."

"Peace is the silence before violence erupts."

"Nature is indifferent to our suffering and beauty."

"We die every day in small ways before we die the final death."

"Leadership is the art of making others die for your vision."

"Motivation is what drives people to destroy themselves."

"The only real knowledge is the knowledge of our own ignorance."

"We are all authors of our own tragedies."

"Relationships are the slow crucifixion of two souls."

"Every culture is a museum of beautiful lies."

"The greatest weapon is not the gun but the word."

"Happiness is the delusion that life makes sense."

"We become what we pretend to be."

"The past haunts us because it refuses to stay buried."

"Art is the scream of those who cannot be heard."

"Love is the disease we willingly contract."

"Freedom is the burden of choosing our own chains."

"Faith is belief in the face of overwhelming evidence."

"Science is the mythology of the modern age."

"The human condition is one long negotiation with despair."

"Words are weapons that wound deeper than steel."

"We are all accomplices in our own destruction."

"Forgiveness is the luxury of the dead."

"Every moment contains the seeds of its own destruction."

"The only constant in life is the constant desire to escape it."

"We build monuments to honor what we have destroyed."

"Change is the only thing we fear more than staying the same."

"The heart is a museum of broken promises."