Francisco De Quevedo Quotes

#1. Withdrawn into the peace of this desert, along with some books, few but wise, I live in conversation with the deceased, and listen to the dead with my eyes

Francisco De Quevedo

#2. The unconscious is our best collaborator.

Mike Nichols

#3. It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

Max Barry

#4. We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

Francisco De Quevedo

#5. Everything she did and love, everything she was, required language.

Lisa Genova

#6. All work which is necessary ennobles him who performs it. Only one thing is shameful - to contribute nothing to the community.

Adolf Hitler

#7. Reading is listening to the dead with our eyes. (page 325, Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene, 2009)

Francisco De Quevedo

#8. That's the thing you don't know about children unless you have them - bath time, Lego, and fish fingers don't allow you to dwell on tragedy for too long.

Jojo Moyes

#9. I will be dust, but dust in love

Francisco De Quevedo

#10. Dear Reader, may God protect you from bad books, police and nagging, moon-faced, fair-haired women.

Francisco De Quevedo

#11. In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!

Francisco De Quevedo

#12. He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.

Francisco De Quevedo