406 Quotes by Guillermo del Toro

I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things.

I had gotten to the point where I just didn’t want to perform anymore – I didn’t want to be on the chopping block anymore. I started to want to withdraw and retreat from it.

In the end, perfection is just a concept – an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature.

The only thing I’m certain of is that uncertainty is the hardest thing in life to endure.

By God, Giles thinks, it’s true: They are not so different from each other. Giles might still, under the right light, bathed in the right water, be beautiful, too.

Only her master knew her true name, for in the Magic Kingdom to know a name was to own the being that carried it.

God is an energy, rather than an anthropomorphic being, and God’s language is biology. Red blood cells, the principle of magnetic attraction, neurological synapse: each is a miracle, and in each is the presence and flow of God.

When he looks at me, the way he looks at me... He does not know, what I lack... Or – how – I am incomplete. He sees me, for what I – am, as I am. He’s happy – to see me. Every time. Every day.

I don’t think there is life beyond death, I don’t. But I do believe that we get this clarity in the last minute of our life. The titles we achieved, the honors we managed, they all vanish. You are left alone with you and your deeds and the things you didn’t do. And that moment of clarity gives you either peace or the most tremendous fear, because you finally have no cover, and you finally realize exactly who you are.