Jorge Luis Borges Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Jorge Luis Borges quotes, Jorge Luis Borges sayings, and Jorge Luis Borges proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. Jorge Luis Borges
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. Jorge Luis Borges
Democracy is an abuse of statistics. Jorge Luis Borges
It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day. Jorge Luis Borges
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read. Jorge Luis Borges
Man's memory shapes Its own eden within. Jorge Luis Borges
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. Jorge Luis Borges
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. Jorge Luis Borges
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. Jorge Luis Borges
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music Jorge Luis Borges
Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. Jorge Luis Borges
There is nothing very remarkable about being immortal; with the exception of mankind, all creatures are immortal, for they know nothing of death. What is divine, terrible, and incomprehensible is to know oneself immortal. Jorge Luis Borges
The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal. Jorge Luis Borges
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality. Jorge Luis Borges
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. Jorge Luis Borges
Doubt is one of the names of intelligence. Jorge Luis Borges
All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them. Jorge Luis Borges
The original is unfaithful to the translation. Jorge Luis Borges
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant. Jorge Luis Borges
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality. Jorge Luis Borges
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible God. Jorge Luis Borges
Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read. Jorge Luis Borges
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god. Jorge Luis Borges
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it's a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it's a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. Jorge Luis Borges
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. Jorge Luis Borges
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me. Jorge Luis Borges
The heresies we ought to fear are those that can be confused with orthodoxy. Jorge Luis Borges
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. Jorge Luis Borges
Reality favors symmetry. Jorge Luis Borges
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism. Jorge Luis Borges