Quotes by Colombian Authors - Page 2

t nightfall, atthe oppressive moment of transition, a storm of carnivorous mosquitoes roseout of the swamps, and a tender breath of human shit, warm and sad, stirredthe certainty of death in the depths of one’s soul.

An advanced city is not a place where the poor move about in cars, rather it’s where even the rich use public transportation

Sometimes I feel like God…when I order someone killed – they die the same day.

She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing their dreams

But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of children in their mothers' wombs are not announcements of ventriloquism or a faculty for prophecy but an unmistakable sign of an incapacity for love.

The world's a scary place these days. Grandpa,, you've seen worse things, haven't you? Please tell me the world has always been like this.