Paolo Coelho Quotes & Sayings

No sir, it is evidently a gigantic narwhal — Jules Verne

We place such crazy importance on physical appearance in our image-obsessed culture, on youth and beauty to define our sense of self-worth, that aging, by default, becomes a kind of defect, something secret and corrosive and shameful. — Ruth Ozeki

Speaking frankly and speaking the truth are two different things entirely. Honesty is to truth as prow is to stern. Honesty appears first and truth appears last. — Haruki Murakami

You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life. — Paulo Coelho

You don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago, — Paulo Coelho

Life is absolutely insane. Yes, life is insane but the great wisdom lies in choosing your insanity wisely. — Paulo Coelho

Do not sanction an absurdity. — Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer. — Pat Barker

I am able to love my God because He gives me freedom to deny Him. — Rabindranath Tagore

Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God! — Charles Dickens

In the cathedral in Florence, there's a beautiful clock designed by Paolo Uccello in 1443. The curious thing about this clock is that, although it keeps time like all other clocks, its hands go in the opposite direction to that of normal clocks.
When he made this clock, Paolo Uccello was not trying to be original: The fact is that, at the time, there were clocks like his as well as others with hands that went in the direction we're familiar with now. For some unknown reason, perhaps because the duke had a clock with hands that went in the direction we now think of as the right direction, that became the only direction, and Uccello's clock then seemed an aberration, a madness. — Paulo Coelho