Paulo Coelho Quotes

Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid. I had no chance. I had no choice. Just hang on and wait for the end. It was hard work. It was the hardest work imaginable.

My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

My job is discouraging in the extreme—it often tempts me to quit the helm in despair.

When you are debilitated, and you're very depressed, and you believe there's no hope, you cannot get a better potpourri of down.

For a long time, I have hoped for better days, but alas, today it is necessary for me to lose all hope. My poor wife suffers more and more. I do not think it is possible to be any weaker.

I've lost a lot. I'm tired of it. It's not fun.

I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate.

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.

When I wrote those two songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough.

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.