Top 31 Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.