Desde el principio estuvimos unidos en la frontera entre la vida y la muerte.
Haruki Murakami
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La caza y la guerra son la principal ocupación del hombre. Desde el principio de los tiempos.
SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH Y al final dejó el horror de esta vida para entrar en el horror de la muerte.
FERNANDO VALLEJO Porque el tiempo es vida, y la vida reside en el corazón. Y cuanto más ahorraba de esto la gente, ...
MICHAEL ENDE Pero aunque la vida es pasajera y el hombre está sujeto a la muerte, la Tierra renovará su ciclo v...
IVáN EGüEZ Vive tu vida desde adentro para fuera, no desde el centro de la cabeza, donde solo vive el miedo y l...
PHILIP T. M. El que corre por la vida, corre hacia la muerte.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Gollum merece la muerte. La merece, sin duda. Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN -En mis ojos, fuiste mía desde el momento en el que te vi en el Starbucks con tu amiga. En mi mente...
MEGAN MAXWELL en realidad no importa que no esperemos nada de la vida, sino que la vida espere algo de nosotros. D...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL Ustedes piensan primero en obtener la producción más grande posible en el menor tiempo posible. No...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Queremos que el fotógrafo sea un espía en la casa del amor y de la muerte y que los retratados no ...
SUSAN SONTAG «[Abrir el corazón] tiene muchísima relación no sólo con la calidad de vida sino también con s...
BRIAN L. WEISS El pueblo antiguo que deseaba tener una clara armonía moral en el mundo, ordenaba primero su vida n...
CONFUCIUS Esa pareja equilibrada no es una utopía ; existen tales parejas, a veces incluso en el mismo marco ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR La alternabilidad entre derecha e izquierda es un principio subversivo. Este principio en lo políti...
FRANCISCO NúñEZ DEL ARCO No está la muerte ni allí ni aquí,
se alza en todos los senderos.
Está en ti y está ...
HERMANN HESSE Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los que mueren merecen la vida. ¿Puedes devolver...
GANDALS Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los que mueren merecen la vida. ¿Puedes devolver...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Al salir del velorio había movido una taza vacía frente a mí. Había dicho: «He leído su suerte...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ La vida me dio la espalda y yo le toque el culo
XEVI CASTELLà TUBERT Nuestra muerte ilumina nuestra vida. Si nuestra muerte carece de sentido, tampoco lo tuvo nuestra vi...
OCTAVIO PAZ No tenían tiempo para pensar en el futuro. Pero luego las expectativas de vida empezaron a aumentar...
JOHN GREEN En Harvard y otras universidades, estudiaron la importancia de la actitud en el éxito de las person...
JOHN C. MAXWELL El hecho de correr en automóvil por Londres se parece tanto al desmenuzamiento de la identidad pers...
VIRGINIA WOOLF En el camino, solo la partida es sufrimiento; el transcurso es aprendizaje y la llegada es la recomp...
MARCOS LLEMES A medida que transcurría el tiempo, se afirmaba en la certeza de que el mundo y la vida eran más f...
ARTURO PéREZ-REVERTE Que yo sepa, lo único que no da resaca y
que disipa momentáneamente la muerte
—tambié...
MILENA BUSQUETS Otra vez tambores de guerra, y son siempre los mismos quienes los percuten. Decía Roger Garaudy que...
FERNANDO SáNCHEZ DRAGó (...) y todo aquello unido era el río, todas las voces, los fines, los anhelos, los sufrimientos, l...
HERMANN HESSE Le rodeó la cintura con un brazo, con un nudo en la garganta.
—¿De veras?
—De veras....
NALINI SINGH Así, la suerte de la mujer y la del socialismo están íntimamente ligadas, como se ve también
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Ponerse un huipil era toda una iniciación, al hacerlo uno repetía diariamente el viaje interior ha...
LAURA ESQUIVEL Es que a veces la gente usa el pensamiento para no participar en la vida.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Nunca ha existido un esclavo que no escogiera ser esclavo. Puede que la elección fuera entre los gr...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hay un minuto en que se agota la siesta. Hasta la secreta, recóndita, minúscula actividad de los i...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ La Lotería, con su reparto semanal de enormes premios, era el único aconteci...
GEORGE ORWELL Todo el que disfruta cree que lo que importa del árbol es el fruto, cuando en realidad es la semill...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE La supercompetencia conduce a menudo al despido, porque transtorna la jerarquía y viola con ello el...
LAURENCE J. PETER -Qué quiere, señor cura. Ninguna sabe cuándo le va a llegar la hora. El amor y la muerte, a traic...
MIGUEL DELIBES El tiempo es cuestion de tiempo, la vida es cuestion de vida, la vida dura un momento, el tiempo tod...
MICHELLE SANCHEZ Nadie sabe lo que sucede en la vida de nadie, salvo en la propia. Y cuando le arruinas una parte de ...
JAY ASHER Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO La magia de cada día no está en vivirlo como si fuera el último, sino en disfrutarlo sintiendo qu...
MARTíN BALAREZO GARCíA No te necesitaba, idiota. Te he elegido. Y luego tú me has elegido a mí. Y esto es como una promes...
JOHN GREEN Cómo soportaba él los ojos de la muchacha y revolvía los suyos contra la cabeza juvenil, escapand...
JUAN CARLOS ONETTI y entonces, de pronto, apareció él, estaca en mano, corriendo por el pasillo como si fuera la muer...
RICHELLE MEAD Si es cierto que las casas se impregnan de la vida transcurrida entre sus paredes, en el caso de los...
ISABEL ALLENDE Hasta la muerte, todo es vida.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Qué es la vida? Un frenesí.
¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión,
una sombra, una ficción, PEDRO CALDERóN DE LA BARCA Lo que quiero conseguir del curso en la universidad es algún conocimiento sobre la mejor manera de ...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Cualquier persona que haya estado enamorada conoce la diferencia entre el eros y la lujuria. No hay ...
SYLVAIN REYNARD Y entonces recibió a la Muerte como si fuera una vieja amiga, y se marchó con ella de buen grado. ...
J.K. ROWLING La muerte tiene mucho más en común con el amor de lo que imagináis.
RICK RIORDAN Pero el sufrimiento pasa. Si la vida, que es todo, pasa, por qué no han de pasar el amor y el dolor...
FERNANDO SAVATER De lo que hemos dicho se desprende que la tarea del poeta es describir no lo que ha
acontecido,...
ARISTOTLE En la vida hay tinieblas, mi niña, pero también hay luces. Y tu eres la luz de toda luz.
BRAM STOKER En ese momento me di cuenta de que el anochecer es solo una ilusión, porque el sol sigue estando pr...
NICHOLAS SPARKS La Tranquilidad es solo el espacio que existe entre un problema y otro.
GERARDO PALACIOS BORJAS La labor más importante del ser humano es buscar la moralidad en sus actos. Es de lo que depende nu...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Las personas realmente inteligentes, son aquellas que pueden hablar de cualquier tema y, entre esos ...
ED HERNANDEZ La historia no ha cambiado. Hace mil anos ellos eran los duenos del mundo. Hoy en dia lo siguen sien...
ANTONIO GUADARRAMA pero el amor puede transformar en belleza y dignidad lo que es grosero, deforme y vulgar. El amor ve...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE La peor guerra es la que se da entre la humildad Y TU ORGULLO...
RON CHACHAGUA La música sentimental tiene la especial cualidad de llevarte hacia atrás en el tiempo a la vez que...
NICK HORNBY La voluntad, el deseo de vivir, es tan fuerte en el animal como en el hombre. En el hombre es mayor ...
PíO BAROJA A veces nos vamos para tratar de encontrarnos. Al hacernos mayores nos perdemos. No sabemos qué hac...
ÁNGELA BECERRA Los amantes y los locos tienen desbocado el seso, y son dados a forjar fantasías que abarcan más d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE hay muchas cosas que le dan sentido a la vida en las que podríamos encontrar la felicidad que tanto...
ED HERNANDEZ En tu abrazo yo abrazo lo que existe,
la arena, el tiempo, el árbol de la lluvia,
y todo ...
PABLO NERUDA Es la hora, amor mío, de apartar esta rosa sombría, cerrar las estrellas, enterrar la ceniza en la...
PABLO NERUDA No hay justicia en la muerte.
RICK RIORDAN Y la cuestión es ésta: la televisión invierte la evolución de lo sensible en inteligible y lo co...
GIOVANNI SARTORI En tu perfil en social media: Se fiel y congruente con lo que quieres en la vida.
CRISTO LEON En cuanto al poder, se aleja a toda vela de la calle y del mercado, de las asambleas y de los parlam...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN pero en la tierra es más feliz la rosa arrancada que aquella que ajándose en el virgen rosal, crec...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE El peor tipo de llanto no era el tipo que todos podían ver, los lamentos en las esquinas, el desgar...
KATIE MCGARRY Desde temprana edad eran conscientes del escaso valor que el mundo daba a los libros, de manera que ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES Porque no vivo ni en mi pasado ni en mi futuro. Tengo sólo el presente, y él es el que me interesa...
PAULO COELHO El orgullo la mantuvo en pie cuando el amor la traicionó.
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS La verdadera amistad resiste el tiempo, la distancia y el silencio.
ISABEL ALLENDE ¿Quieres entender que es un año de vida? Pregúntaselo a un estudiante que acaba de suspender el e...
MARC LEVY Salí a la terraza y me maravillaron aquellas vistas. No me había percatado al subir tantas cuestas...
ALBERT ESPINOSA La vanidad es la necedad del egoísmo, y el orgullo, la insolencia de la vanidad.
FERNáN CABALLERO Hoy en día la gente conoce el precio de todo y el valor de nada.
OSCAR WILDE el desesperado no querer morir, es el camino más seguro para la muerte eterna, en tanto que saber m...
HERMANN HESSE En sí misma, toda idea es neutra o debería serlo; pero el hombre la anima, proyecta en ella sus ll...
CIORAN Te amo como se aman ciertas cosas oscuras,
secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma.
PABLO NERUDA Estoy en este estacionamiento pensando que nunca he estado tan lejos de casa, y aquí esta la chica ...
JOHN GREEN La vida es como una vela prendida. Todos cuando nacemos llevamos una con nuestro nombre reflejado en...
AUDREY DRY Hay que aprender a pasar la vida balanceando el peso que cargamos y nuestros sentimientos.
BARBARA HALL Ella, sin duda, era la encarnación de la belleza que encontraba en la Tierra. Tenía que pasar por ...
ANAGABY ARRIETA Porque, en la vida real, el amor necesita ser posible. Incluso aunque no haya una retribución inmed...
PAULO COELHO No hay razón para estar enfadado. La ira solo distrae la tristeza que lo abarca, el sincero conocim...
JOHN GREEN ¿Quiere que vaya a la iglesia y me confiese? ¿Cree que los detectives nos rebajamos a hablar con s...
PABLO DE SANTIS …debes darte cuenta de que nos hemos pasado la vida desde pequeños respondiendo a la pregunta ‘...
ALBERT ESPINOSA La verdad, es que en el fondo soy un fatalista. Si a uno le llega la hora, da lo mismo un Boeing que...
MARIO BENEDETTI La vida era como una canción.
En el comienzo, hay misterio, al final, hay una confirmación, ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS La memoria imprime en blanco y negro, los grises se pierden por el camino.
ISABEL ALLENDE La sociedad era horrible porque estaba loca. La sociedad civilizada es un despropósito. El dinero y...
D.H. LAWRENCE Confía en ella. Tu hija es una mujer. Quizá la Iglesia diga que representamos el pecado, que debem...
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HARUKI MURAKAMI Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to ope...
HARUKI MURAKAMI And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTH...
HARUKI MURAKAMI No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they...
HARUKI MURAKAMI From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke fr...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means...
HARUKI MURAKAMI There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Hajime," she began, "the sad truth is that some things can't go backwards. Once they start going for...
HARUKI MURAKAMI We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpec...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.
HARUKI MURAKAMI No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body fallin...
HARUKI MURAKAMI She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But...
HARUKI MURAKAMI sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get o...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened t...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, gra...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't kee...
HARUKI MURAKAMI But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in scho...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a...
HARUKI MURAKAMI If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. I...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no m...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, livin...
HARUKI MURAKAMI No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i...
HARUKI MURAKAMI For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, someth...
HARUKI MURAKAMI For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.
HARUKI MURAKAMI You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.
HARUKI MURAKAMI When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unh...
HARUKI MURAKAMI George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don...
HARUKI MURAKAMI You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes yo...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
HARUKI MURAKAMI These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say somethi...
HARUKI MURAKAMI From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we t...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.
HARUKI MURAKAMI He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anyth...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.
HARUKI MURAKAMI The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the...
HARUKI MURAKAMI A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were n...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.
HARUKI MURAKAMI But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.
HARUKI MURAKAMI If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jo...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Night...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you nee...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Nah, I shook my head, things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that’s all.
W...
HARUKI MURAKAMI We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died...
HARUKI MURAKAMI It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical
HARUKI MURAKAMI I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book;...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Maybe I am fated to always be alone, Tsukuru found himself thinking. People came to him, but in the ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.
HARUKI MURAKAMI The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be lear...
HARUKI MURAKAMI People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.
HARUKI MURAKAMI Wherever there's hope there's a trial.
HARUKI MURAKAMI The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm just ordinary guy, ordinary family, ordinary education, ordinary face, ordinary exam results, or...
HARUKI MURAKAMI He wasn't normally conscious of it, but there was one part of his body that was extremely sensitive,...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer,...
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