Juan Rulfo

Novelist Mexican 1917 – 1986

Mexican novelist known for Pedro Páramo.

375 quotes

"I came to Comala because I was told that here lived my father, a man called Pedro Páramo."
Family
"We are all waiting for death. That is what life is about."
Death
"The past is a weight we carry, but we are not condemned to be crushed by it."
Time
"In silence, we find the truth that words cannot express."
Truth
"Love is the only thing that makes us feel alive in a dead world."
Love
"Memory is like a ghost that haunts us with what we have lost."
Life
"The land remembers what men forget."
Nature
"We live in the shadows of the past, searching for light."
Hope
"To write is to remember, and to remember is to live again."
Literature
"Solitude is not loneliness; it is the company of oneself."
Solitude
"The heart knows things the mind cannot understand."
Wisdom
"Despair is the luxury of those who have given up hope."
Courage
"Words are seeds that grow into worlds."
Creativity
"The truth is often buried beneath layers of lies and forgetting."
Truth
"To live is to struggle against the weight of the past."
Perseverance
"In the silence of the desert, one hears the voice of God."
Faith
"We are all prisoners of our own stories."
Life
"The writer must be willing to suffer to create something true."
Art
"Time moves differently for those who are waiting."
Time
"The land is our memory, written in dust and stone."
Nature
"To forgive is to release the chains that bind us to the past."
Peace
"Dreams are the only escape from the prison of reality."
Dreams
"The voice of the people is the voice of truth."
Justice
"To create is to defy death itself."
Creativity
"The past lives in us, whether we acknowledge it or not."
History
"Patience is the virtue of those who understand that change takes time."
Patience
"Beauty is found in the broken places of the world."
Beauty
"We must learn to listen to the silence between words."
Wisdom
"The story is not told; it is lived."
Literature
"To know oneself is to understand the world."
Knowledge