Quotes About Rulfo

#1. On Juan Rulfo:
His published writings add up to no more than 300 pages, but they are just as many, and I believe just as enduring, as those that we know of Sophocles.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#2. Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.

Juan Rulfo

#3. And though there were no children playing, no doves, no blue-shadowed roof tiles, I felt that the town was alive. And that if I heard only silence, it was because I was not accustomed to silence - maybe because my head was still filled with sounds and voices.

Juan Rulfo

#4. I'm not ashamed to say that I cried at an animation movie

America Ferrera

#5. There was no air; only the dead, still night fired by the dog days of August. Not a breath. I had to suck in the same air I exhaled, cupping it in my hands before it escaped. I felt it, in and out, less each time ... until it was so thin it slipped through my fingers forever. I mean, forever.

Juan Rulfo

#6. This world presses in on us from every side; it scatters fistfuls of our dust across the land
and takes bits and pieces of us as if to water the earth with our blood. What did we do? Why
have our souls rotted away?

Juan Rulfo

#7. All places that the eye of heaven visits/ Are to a wise man ports and happy havens:/ Think not the king did banish thee:/ But thou the king.
Richard II

James Fenimore Cooper

#8. Because to write, one must truly suffer.

Juan Rulfo

#9. I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God. I was into habit.

Donald Miller

#10. No one knows better than I do how far heaven is, but I also know all the shortcuts. The secret is to die, when you want to, and not when He proposes. Or else to force Him to take you before your time.

Juan Rulfo

#11. That town sits on the coals of the earth, at the very mouth of hell. They say that when people from there go to hell, they come back for a blanket.

Juan Rulfo

#12. Every author that creates is a liar;literature is a lie,but from that lie, a recreation of reality is born. Therefore, recreating reality is one of the fundaments of creation.

Juan Rulfo

#13. Her eyelashes lay still; her heart was still.

Juan Rulfo

#14. I live by four words and I have it tattooed on my arms as well. It just says, 'Live, learn, love life'. So you live your life to the best way you can. Every situation is a learning one so take those lessons, learn from it and love your life.

Chris Johnson

#15. This town is filled with echoes. It's like they were trapped behind the walls, or beneath the cobblestones. When you walk you feel like someone's behind you, stepping in your footsteps.

Juan Rulfo

#16. It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

John Ruskin

#17. The sky was filled with fat stars, swollen from the long night. The moon had risen briefly and then slipped out of sight. It was one of those sad moons that no one looks at or pays attention to. It had hung there a while, misshapen, not shedding any light, and then gone to hide behind the hills.

Juan Rulfo

#18. It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not.

Sheldon Richman

#19. You've been dreaming lies again, Susana.

Juan Rulfo

#20. I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was ... an arctic wilderness.

Steve Martin

#21. I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

Juan Rulfo