Quotes About Coelho

Each human being has the right to two blessings, which are: the blessing to do right, and the blessing to err. In the latter case, there is always a path of learning leading to the right way.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

He never falls into the trap of the word "freedom".

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

Emotions were like wild horses and it required wisdom to be able to control them

When I asked you if you wanted to, I was not testing your courage. I was testing your wisdom.

Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.

It feels like my soul is slowly leaving my body and heading off to an unknown place, some safe place where it doesn't have to put up with me and my night terrors.

He's been sent by the devil to destabilize something that was already fragile. How could I fall in love so quickly with someone I don't even know?

Death was sweet; it smelled of wine and stroked her hair.

and that happiness could be found in a grain of sand from the desert, as the alchemist had said. Because a grain of sand is a moment of creation, and the universe has taken millions of years to create it.

Women, when they kill themselves, choose far more romantic methods like slashing their wrist or taking an overdose of sleeping pills.