“Power revealed is power sacrificed. The truly powerful exert their influence in ways unseen, unfelt. Some would say that a thing visible is a thing vulnerable.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
“Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
“...there's something about maternal love - it might just be the strongest human spiritual bond there is.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
“There are men who bloom in chaos. You call them heroes or villains, depending on which side wins the war, but until the battle call they are but normal men who long for action, who lust for the opportunity to throw off the routine of their normal lives like a cocoon and come into their own. They sense a destiny larger than themselves, but only when structures collapse around them do these men become warriors.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
“What is life, in the end, but a series of small victories and larger failures?”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
“We don’t discover, we don’t learn. We just remember things that we have forgotten…”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
“Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic cave. We naturally believe ourselves clever and wise, so advanced, and those who came before us so naïve and simple…when all we truly do is echo the order of the universe, as it guides us…”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
“People who have lived their whole lives feeling half-complete. Who never truly fit anywhere in the world. Who never understood why they were here, or what they were meant for. Who never answered the call, because they never heard it. Because nothing ever spoke to them.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
“Miriam Sacher had survived polio as a child. To Abraham, she was simply the most exquisite little bird who could not fly.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
“In the face of such terror and dehumanization, human passion itself was an act of defiance.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
“Everything in our universe is ciphered and to know the cipher is to know the thing—and to know the thing is to command it.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
“Cars get girl names. Guns get guy names. What do knives get?”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
“One must always name a weapon. You cannot trust that which you cannot call by name.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
“And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
“In you, we have given this world a great gift—and of that, I have no doubt.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
“We, the over-class, have taken those basic human drives and advanced our own selves through their exploitation. We have monetized human consumption, manipulated morals and laws to direct the masses by fear or hatred, and, in doing so, have managed to create a system of wealth and remuneration that has concentrated the vast majority of the world’s wealth in the hands of a select few. Over the course of two thousand years,”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
“An old man’s beliefs matter little. I am the past. You, the future. What are your beliefs?”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
“We, the over-class, have taken those basic human drives and advanced our own selves through their exploitation. We have monetized human consumption, manipulated morals and laws to direct the masses by fear or hatred, and, in doing so, have managed to create a system of wealth and remuneration that has concentrated the vast majority of the world’s wealth in the hands of a select few.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
“so my wife took them up to a friend’s on Kinnelon Lake.” Not far enough,”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
“Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness—cutting”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
“Ante el terror y la deshumanización, la pasión humana era en sí misma un acto de desafío.”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
“This world is a motherfucker, isn’t it?” Angel nodded and said, “But it’s the only one we have.” Gus”
― Guillermo del Toro, quote from The Fall
Guillermo del Toro
Born place: in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Born date October 9, 1964
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“They say the day the Governor arrived, the ravens did too.”
― Kiran Millwood Hargrave, quote from The Girl of Ink and Stars
“They killed farming a year or so later. And they killed it by putting cabs on tractors. No longer was the farmer alive to the elements, or even close to the earth.”
― John Lewis-Stempel, quote from Meadowland: the private life of an English field
“More energy is needed to rise a millimetre above a neutron star's surface than to break completely free of Earth's gravity. A pen dropped from a height of one metre would impact with the energy of a ton of TNT (although the intense gravity on a neutron star's surface would actually, of course, squash any such objects instantly). A projectile would need to attain half the speed of light to escape its gravity; conversely, anything that fell freely onto a neutron star from a great height would impact at more than half the speed of light.”
― Martin J. Rees, quote from Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces That Shape the Universe
“The key to building distance in the long run is the ability of the mind to lie to the body — and be convincing.”
― Mark Rowlands, quote from The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death, and Happiness
“I want you to write one page on what you want to be when you grow up, and then one page on what you want to be if that first thing doesn’t work out, because sometimes things don’t work out the way we’d like them to. Then another page on what you’d do if the first two things you’d like to be don’t work out. Then two pages on the one thing you definitely don’t want to be no matter what. It’s really important not to let the bottom drop out of your life.”
― Lisa Lutz, quote from The Passenger
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