Juan Rulfo

Novelist Mexican 1917 – 1986

Mexican novelist known for Pedro Páramo.

375 quotes

"The bond of family transcends even the finality of death."
Family
"To forget one's story is to lose one's place in the world."
Knowledge
"The desert is patient; it waits for all to return to dust."
Nature
"Love is the only language that requires no translation."
Love
"The witness to suffering bears a responsibility to speak."
Justice
"In the margins of history live the truest stories."
History
"The human spirit cannot be quantified or possessed."
Inspiration
"To live is to participate in an endless conversation with the dead."
Life
"The voice of the forgotten becomes the voice of the future."
Motivation
"In pain, we discover the depth of our own humanity."
Wisdom
"The storyteller inherits the sacred duty to remember."
Leadership
"Where power silences, art must speak louder."
Art
"The past is a ghost that haunts the present with its unfinished business."
Time
"Memory is the only country where the dead still live among us."
Death
"In silence, we find the words we've been searching for all our lives."
Solitude
"The earth remembers what we forget, and punishes what we deny."
Nature
"To write is to bleed onto the page what the heart refuses to speak."
Literature
"Despair is the currency of those who have stopped listening to the land."
Hope
"We are all prisoners of our own stories, waiting for someone to unlock the door."
Freedom
"The rain knows secrets that the sun will never understand."
Nature
"Every family carries its own mythology, its own small apocalypses."
Family
"To love in a barren land requires more courage than to love in abundance."
Love
"The voices of the dead are louder than the cries of the living."
Death
"Patience is not a virtue but a necessity when you live at the edge of nowhere."
Patience
"Words are seeds that grow into forests of meaning we cannot control."
Knowledge
"The burden of the past makes the present unbearably heavy."
Time
"In the desert, even hope learns to conserve its water."
Hope
"Art is the rebellion of those who have nothing left but their imagination."
Art
"To understand a place, you must first understand its ghosts."
Philosophy
"The violence of poverty is more terrible than any bullet or blade."
Justice