Jorge Luis Borges Life Quotations

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.

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

Life itself is a quotation.

The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment-the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is." "Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment-the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.