Juan Gabriel Vasquez Quotes

#1. The gradual and imperceptible subsidence of the waters, that's the alluvium. Thus am I gradually left alone, thus have I been left alone. - Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#2. I read somewhere that a man should tell the story of his life at the age of forty, and this deadline is fast approaching as I write these lines, only a few short weeks remain before this ominous birthday arrives. - Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#3. Sometimes I think," he told me the only time we talked somewhat seriously, "I've never looked anyone in the eye." It was an exaggeration, but I'm not sure the man was exaggerating on purpose. After all, he wasn't looking me in the eye when he said those words. - Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#4. Where does the past go when it changes? - Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#5. The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies. - Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#6. They talked of intentions and projects, convinced, as only new lovers can be, that saying what you wanted was the same as saying who you are. - Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#7. The kind of sadness we tolerate because it appears at happy moments - Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#8. Her face was like a party that everyone had left. - Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#9. The nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost. - Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#10. Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others. - Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#11. In the darkness of the bedroom I thought of that, although thinking in the darkness is not advisable: things seem bigger or more serious in the darkness, illnesses more destructive, the presence of evil closer, indifference more intense, solitude more profound. - Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#12. What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over. - Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#13. There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken. - Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#14. The world's a scary place these days. Grandpa,, you've seen worse things, haven't you? Please tell me the world has always been like this. - Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#15. I was also surprised by the alacrity and dedication we devote to the damaging exercise of remembering, which after all brings nothing good and serves only to hinder our normal functioning, like those bags of sand athletes tie around their calves for training. - Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#16. Elaine complained about this at night, in her matrimonial bed, and then complained that in Colombia all the citizens were political but no politician wanted to do anything for the citizens. - Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#17. Remembering tires a person out. this is something they don't teach us. Exercising one's memory is an exhausting activity. It draws our energy and wears down our muscles. - Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#18. A person doesn't have to do anything but die. - Author: Juan Gabriel Vasquez