Top 20 Quotes from VERONIKA DECIDES TO DIE by PAULO COELHO

 Paulo Coelho's Veronika Decides to Die is a novel. It follows the journey of Veronika, a 24-year-old Slovenian woman who looks to have everything going for her in life until she decides to commit suicide. This book, which deals with the topic of madness, is based in part on Coelho's experiences in several mental facilities.

Below are some of the best quotes from Veronika Decides to Die.

“it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be”

“Real love changes and grows with time and discovers new ways of expressing itself.”

“we’re allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us”

“LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation.”

“What is I? It's what you are, not what others make of you.”

“A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.”

“They think they're normal, because they all do the same thing. Well, I'm going to pretend that I have drunk from the same well as them.”

“Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.”

“People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.”

“Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.”

“You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”

“Nothing in this world happens by chance”

“Collective madness is called sanity ..”

“Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.”

“She hated the love she had been given, because it had asked for nothing in return, which was absurd, unreal, against the laws of nature”

“the universe always favors those who fight for what they want.”

“...good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice.”

“...the truth about this existence of ours...can be summed up in one word: Live”

“And all of us, one way or another, are insane.”

“No one can judge. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering or the total absence of meaning in their lives.”