811 Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even though we don't understand it.

The dead never go to their own funeral.

Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to turn back pages; it was a path on which, whatever direction we took, we'd never be able to choose our own destiny.

He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.

Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.

She wandered off into the shadows, carrying her bucket and dragging her shadow like a bridal veil.

And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

L'ansia è la ruggine dell'anima.