Richard Zimler > Quotes

“God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now, He was a heron. To someone else, He might come as a flower or even a breeze.”
― Richard Zimler, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon

“Bruheem kol dumuyay eloha! Blessed are all God's self-portraits.”
― Richard Zimler, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon

“Por vezes, penso que a esperança não pertence unicamente a cada um, que existe como um éter que se infiltra dentro de nós no momento do nascimento." in Meia-Noite ou O Princípio do Mundo.”
― Richard Zimler

“Blessed are all of God's self-portraits.”
― Richard Zimler, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon

“Portugal é o país onde as regras são meras sugestões.”
― Richard Zimler

“Doubts are good; they are proof that our minds are sojourning in lands far from home.”
― Richard Zimler

“In death, we never much resemble who we were in life, for all the mystery is gone.”
― Richard Zimler

“Do you know what it means to look at a headless baby sitting in a shovel? It is as if all the languages in the world have been forgotten, as if all the books ever written have been given up to dust. And that you are glad of it. Because such people as we have no right to speak or write or leave any trace for history.”
― Richard Zimler, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon

“Só te suplico que não subas tão alto que eu te perca de vista”
― Richard Zimler

“Esta foi assim a última lição que Francisca me ensinou: que eu, John Zarco, não tinha qualquer poder mágico. Não havia canções de amor suficientemente poderosas para derrotar a morte. Todas as coisas mais importantes estavam fora do nosso controlo.”
― Richard Zimler, Hunting Midnight

“Terror traps us all from time to time, but the important thing is not to let it build walls around us.”
― Richard Zimler, The Warsaw Anagrams

“Perhaps all the dead must go home before they can leave for ever.”
― Richard Zimler, The Warsaw Anagrams

“Beware of men who see no mystery when they look in the mirror.”
― Richard Zimler, The Warsaw Anagrams

“A history made of 'ifs' - such is the life of mortal men" The Gospel According to Lzarus”
― Richard Zimler, The Gospel According to Lazarus

“Inside the body of Torah, folded like a phoenix in its egg, is the story of the spiritual journey each of us can make, from slavery to sanctity. The Passover Haggadah is a golden bell whose singing tones tell us: always remember that the Holy Land is in you!”
― Richard Zimler, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon

“We all want to be listened to, to feel we matter. We want to be able to tell the story of our life without being interrupted, or judged, or asked to get to the point.”
― Richard Zimler, The Warsaw Anagrams

“Há memórias que são o próprio amor: o toque das mãos da minha mãe; o cheiro do cachimbo do meu Papá; o sorriso de Meia-Noite. E os olhos de Violeta. Compreendi que para mim ela era ao mesmo tempo uma estranha e a maior das amigas.”
― Richard Zimler, Hunting Midnight

“We all spend our lives living beside the people we could have been.”
― Richard Zimler, The Warsaw Anagrams

“Será que todos levamos a vida que levamos porque temos de saber por que razão as coisas aconteceram da maneira que aconteceram, e se elas poderiam ter-se combinado de um modo diferente para produzir algo mais terno e significativo e permanente?”
― Richard Zimler, A Sentinela

“When loved ones depart forever, all that remains is the light from their eyes trapped in their jewelry. Beyond memory, it is the only souvenir we ever keep.”
― Richard Zimler

“Se descermos até à cave, se descermos até às profundezas, encontramos velhos amigos de quem nos esquecemos, que nos abraçam. Por uns breves momentos tudo é como deveria ter sido.”
― Richard Zimler, Os Dez Espelhos de Benjamin Zarco

“How many of us are able to live our lives knowing that there are far more terrible things than dying with a German bullet in your chest or a noose around your neck? Those who can't will always hate those of use who ca”
― Richard Zimler, The Warsaw Anagrams

“Hope that one has chanced upon the road back to the way things used to be is apparently a strong desire in those who’ve been locked outside their previous lives.”
― Richard Zimler, The Warsaw Anagrams

“you can never predict how you will behave when you stand before the tower of vengeance you have erected.”
― Richard Zimler, The Warsaw Anagrams

“When people tell us who they are, we should listen closely and believe them.”
― Richard Zimler, The Seventh Gate

“How many of us are able to live our lives knowing that there are far more terrible things than dying with a German bullet in your chest or a noose around your neck? Those who can't will always hate those of use who can.”
― Richard Zimler, The Warsaw Anagrams

“We owe uniqueness to our dead at the very least”
― Richard Zimler, The Warsaw Anagrams

“I squat on my heels by his side and move my palm over him - a finger's-width distant - so that I might feel my ache of longing for him as a deep and essential part of me before I let it go”
― Richard Zimler, The Gospel According to Lazarus

“La crueldad gratuita... Hay que reconocer que no pasa nunca de moda, y los nazis la habían elevado a la categoría de filosofía.”
― Richard Zimler, Los anagramas de Varsovia

“How many of us never find a way to say the one thing we must?”
― Richard Zimler, The Gospel According to Lazarus