To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at g…

Jorge Luis Borges
201 citations
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral. ✨ Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley (2004). Aleph and other stories, Penguin Classics
Death
10

More Author Quotes

Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much. ✨ Borges Verbal edited by Pilar Bravo and Mario Paoletti, (p. 156), 1999.
This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility. ✨ Jorge Luis Borges (1993). Ficciones, Everyman' … ▶
I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual. ✨ Jorge Luis Borges (2001). A Universal History of Iniquity, Penguin Books
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist. ✨ … ▶

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes