Wisdom Quote by Paul Auster — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.”

“I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live forever. It takes a long time to learn that, but when you finally do, everything changes inside you, you can never be the same again. I was seventeen years old, and all of a sudden, without the slightest flicker of a doubt, I understood that my life was my own, that it belonged to me and no one else.”

“Stavo cercando un posto tranquillo per morire”

“As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his own terms. To what end? To be free. But free to what end? To read books, to write books, to think.”

“The truth of the story lies in the details.”

“but even the facts do not always tell the truth”

“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.”

“In presence of the moon nobody sees stars.”

“Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.”

“A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.”

“كل كائن يكف عن النمو يبدأ في الموت.الإنسان السعيد هو الذي يستطيع أن يحول كل موسم من مواسم الحياة فرصة لنمو طاقات جديدة.”

“It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.”