We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.

- Javier Marías

Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.

- Javier Marías

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

- Javier Marías

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.

- Javier Marías

People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to lose. It's alway…

- Javier Marías

Superstition is just another form of thought like any other, a form that accentuates and regulates the association of ideas, it's an exacerbation, an…

- Javier Marías

It's so sad that no one writes down the things we go through, and even worse - no one will ever know about it, no one will ever see or hear about it,…

- Javier Marías

Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have l…

- Javier Marías

I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it’s one o…

- Javier Marías