Juan Rulfo Quote

Each sigh is like a sip of life that one lets go of.

Illusion? That comes at a high cost. It cost me living more than I should have.

Juan Rulfo

The death is not distributed as if it were a good. Nobody goes in search of sorrows.

Juan Rulfo

Nothing can last forever, there is no memory so intense that it does not fade.

Juan Rulfo

No one will ever hurt you, son. I am here to protect you. That's why I was born before you, and my bones hardened before yours.

Juan Rulfo

I didn't feel like doing anything. Just living.

Juan Rulfo

There is air and sun, there are clouds. Up there, a blue sky (...) There is hope, in short. There is hope for us, despite our sorrow.

Juan Rulfo

And you and I and everyone know that time is heavier than the heaviest burden a man can bear.

Juan Rulfo

It had been so many years since I lifted my face, that I forgot about the sky.

Juan Rulfo

I used to believe that the heart could be directed here or there, as one wished, and that it could be controlled at will. But now I know that it's not, that it's not even yours.

Juan Rulfo

I kept intact in my memory the environment in which I lived. The atmosphere in which my childhood developed, the air, the light, the color of the sky, the taste of the earth, that I kept. What memory gives me back are those sensations.

Juan Rulfo

We either save ourselves together or drown separately.

Juan Rulfo