Jorge Luis Borges Quotes & Sayings

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

“Life itself is a quotation.”

“To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.”

“Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.”

“The original is unfaithful to the translation.”

“Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.”

“Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.”

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

“The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.”