Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.

Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

Life itself is a quotation.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.