Luis Bunuel Quotes

It is unwise to wish everything explained.

I'm not in control of my fate, and that's a good thing.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day.

To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.

I've had to make really big decisions, knowing the results were not always in my control. Through these moments, I've learned to be daring and take risks but understand that everything always happens for a reason.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.

We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.

The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

Remember that nothing really important ever happens until someone takes a chance.

One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.

I've spent a lot of time wondering, What's going to happen? What's going to happen? I try not to allow myself to do that much anymore. I think ive gotten more comfortable with the unknown.

I'm not scared to fail, I'm not scared to lose, I'm not scared to die, for that matter... It's going to work out the way it's supposed to work out.

People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.

I think if your goal is for everything to be okay, that's a mistake. To achieve that goal, the only obstacle you'd have to face tomorrow is to eliminate all risk ... I've made the decision that I'm never trying to make everything okay. I'm trying for there to be more loose ends, not fewer loose ends.

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

Are you happy?" she [Clarisse] said. "Am I what?" he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.

Don't be afraid to do something unconventional, to take a chance, to risk something.

If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

I used to work in a bank when I was younger and to me it doesn’t matter whether it’s raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I’m riding a bike I know I’m the luckiest guy in the world.

Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now--in this bright, laughing moment--and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.