Wisdom Quotes

"The capacity to imagine the suffering of others was the beginning of moral development."

"The truth, she had come to believe, was less important than understanding."

"In attempting to atone, one risked becoming enslaved by the very act of atonement."

"Blindness teaches you to listen."

"Madness is not hereditary; it is learned."

"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese."

"Liesel, accept things. Besides, she wasn't a girl who could be contained."

"Her face was pale but her expression was not. It was full of small, sad smiles."

"In the end, there was only the girl and the words, and nothing else mattered."

"Suffering is what forms us."

"Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever"

"One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength."

"A man cannot starve on love alone."

"The night does not come from the darkness. The darkness comes from the night."

"The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point."

"She understood that all the confusion of her life had finally cleared up."

"In his own way, Aureliano Segundo was quite lucid in matters of the heart."

"She was the only one in that household who had a clear view of the future."

"His worst mistake had been believing that the past could be changed by forgetting it."

"I am the face of your past."

"Age is no barrier. It's no more than the record of one's own experiences."

"Words are life."

"The pencil was mightier than the sword."

"It was not her fault that people did not understand."

"The world was not as she had imagined it."

"A person is smart. People are dumb."

"The shell is just a house. What matters is what we choose to do inside it."

"Blindness teaches you to see differently."

"Silence can be louder than words."

"Some choices define who we really are."