811 Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren’t already complicated enough.

You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That’s why you live longer.

A secret’s worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

I’m not talking to anyone, I’m delivering a monologue. It’s the inebriated man’s prerogative.

One mustn’t dream of one’s future; one must earn it.

I’ve always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.

It’s curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don’t dare say to someone’s face.

Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog’s tail.

Envy is the religion of the mediocre.