Paulo Coelho: Quotes about people

Paulo Coelho is Brazilian lyricist and novelist. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

“At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them”

Paulo Coelho book The Fifth Mountain

Source: The Fifth Mountain

“Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem.”

Paulo Coelho

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

“A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.”

Paulo Coelho

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

“People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.”

Paulo Coelho

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

“People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it.”

Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

“People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

“There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe…. The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

The Old King, p. 22.
Source: The Alchemist (1988)

“Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.”

Paulo Coelho

“There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.”

Paulo Coelho

“In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those people who decide to die? No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.”

Paulo Coelho

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

“But other people also 'invite' us to behave like victims, when they complain about the unfairness of life, for example, and ask us to agree, to offer advice, to participate.

Be careful. When you join in that game you always end up losing.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“Don't think about what you’ll tell people afterward. The time is here and now. Make the most of it.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

“You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.”

Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym

Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

“What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.”

Paulo Coelho book The Pilgrimage

Source: The Pilgrimage

“Possibly. Basically, everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality.”

Paulo Coelho

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

“What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.”

Paulo Coelho

Source: The Witch Of Portobello

“That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.”

Paulo Coelho

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

“Record things in your heart. It’s more important than trying to show people what you’re experiencing.”

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

Source: Adultery