“I have always been an optimistic woman, but time has left me bitter, alone and sad.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Time, Bitterness, Sadness
“I am a woman who was born at the wrong time and nothing can be done to fix this.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Time
“I don't know if the future will remember me, but if it does, may it never see me as a victim, but as someone who moved forward with courage, fearlessly paying the price had to pay.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Time, strength, Fearlessness
“Remember this when you feel joy, pain, or sadness. Everything passes. grows old, dies, and is reborn.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Joy, Pain, Sadness
“Love kills suddenly. Leaving no evidence of the crime.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Love, Falling In Love, Heartbreak
“When we don't know where life is taking us, we are never lost.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Life, Feeling Lost, The future
“Dear Mata Hari, your biggest mistake was having found the wrong man to do the right thing.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Love, Wrong Choices, mistake
“When a woman or a man is abandoned by the person they love, they are focused on their own pain. No one stops to wonder what is happening to the other person.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Love, Heartbreak, Pain
“Everyone flirts with danger, so long as that danger does not really exist.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: danger, manipulation
“Every moment should be lived with feeling and emotion because if we try to decipher it and understand it, the magic disappears”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Love, emotions, Feelings
“Because when we truly love, we know others and ourselves betters. We do not need words, documents, minutes, statements, accusations or defenses.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Love, emotions, Feelings
“Love does not obey anyone and will betray those who try to decipher its mystery.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Love, emotions, Feelings
“I fought for our love with all my might, but today it's run out. The stone that weighed on my heart is now a rock that will no longer let it beat. And my heart, with its last breath, told me there are other worlds beyond this one, worlds where I don't have to always beg for the company of a man to f…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Heartbreak, Pain, Love
“You were not only a person unjustly accused of espionage, but someone who dared to challenge certain customs. And for that you could not be forgiven.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Strong Woman, Breaking Rules
“I imagined I was playing a much more important role than the ones I had played before: I was someone who could change the fate of the world.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: strength, Change
“I did it all for love, only for love...an unrequited love. but what does that matter? What really matters is being close to the one you love; that was my goal.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Love, Unrequited Love
“I do not want to rush my own story; life is moving very quickly and I have struggled to keep up with it since that morning I arrived in Berlin.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Life, Time
“I don't know why life made me go through so much in so little time.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Life, Pain, Problems
“I desired to say yes immediately, but a lady of class does not act on impulse.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I had long since lost any illusion of being loved for who I was and now accepted, with a clean conscience, flowers, flattery, and money that fed my ego and my false identity. For certain, I'd go to my grave one day without knowing love, but what difference did it make? For me, love and power were th…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Love, Heartbreak Quotes
“And without giving it much thought, I began to tell him about my life -- something that I had kept to myself up until then because it was all just one lie after the other.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Opening Up, Love
“I thought that speaking about my wounds would only make them more real. And yet the exact opposite was taking place: My tears were healing me.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Healing, Pain, Tears
“I looked only toward the sunshine and forgot the storms, I let myself be dazzled by the beauty of the roses but paid no attention to the thorns.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Hope, Life
“People say life is not that complicated, but life is very complicated.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Life, Complicated
“Never fall in love. Love is a poison. Once you fall in love, you lose control over your life -- your heart and mind belong to someone else. Your existence is threatened.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Love, Falling In Love, Heartbreak
“Contrary to what the critics who never understood me said, when I was onstage, I simply forgot about the woman I was and offered everything to God. That is why I was able to undress so easily. At that moment, I was nothing, not even my body, I was just movements communing with the universe.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: God, The Universe, Dancing, Performance
“But letting a man help a woman leaves him vulnerable. This is the dream of all men, according to the officers' mistresses in Java.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Men, Weakness, vulnerability
“Memories always win, and with them comes a demon that is even more terrifying than melancholy: remorse.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Time, Memories, Remorse, Sad
“Here I was in paradise, living my own personal hell.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.comTagged: Pain of Living, Sadness