black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

Jorge Luis Borges

Related Topics

Future Hope Memories Present Reality

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Breathe Hungry Universe
Everything touches everything.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Connection One Liner Touch
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Expression Finding Mention Rose Word
Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Man Memories Shape
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Probability Reality
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Existence Fact Poetry Possible Word
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Animal Time
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Lazy Poet Work Writing
Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Character Fools Myself Play Trick
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Future Hope Memories Present Reality
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Books Existence Fools Ideas Summary Writing
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Illumination Live Management Ourselves
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Believe Progress Stop
When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Astonishment Myself Wake Up Worst
Life itself is a quotation.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Life One Liner
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Literature Metaphor Myself Sea

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes