Where the Bird Sings Best Quotes

“If you want to draw some advantage from your history, you must accept not only this miracle but also many others. In memory, everything can become miraculous. All you have to do is wish it, and freezing winter turns into spring, miserable rooms fill up with golden tapestries, murderers turn good, and children who cry out of loneliness receive caring teachers who are really the children themselves moved back from adulthood to their early years. Yes, my daughter, the past is not fixed and unalterable. With faith and will we can change it, not erasing its darkness but adding lights to it to make it more and more beautiful, the way a diamond is cut.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Where the Bird Sings Best

“God does not exist, God is not good. All that awaits us is the cat who will urinate on our grave.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Where the Bird Sings Best

“He who understands philosophy understands laughter. That mysterious Word at the beginning, mentioned in the Bible, is a divine guffaw.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Where the Bird Sings Best

“... para que el hombre se haga luz, la mujer deberá enterrar su lámpara en las tinieblas"

Donde Mejor Canta un Pájaro”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Quando Teresa si arrabbiò con Dio

“Life is a play. What matters is not that it lasts a long time but that it be well-acted.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Where the Bird Sings Best

“My dancing is only entertainment for rich people who applaud as long as you don’t show them anything real. I mean, human misery and the industrial devastation of the planet. I’ve been training my entire life for an audience that requires beauty without truth. I’ve submerged myself in myself, becoming an island of form without mind, in an exhibition of naïve vanity. The”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Where the Bird Sings Best

“My son, you are what you are in the present. Leave the past behind; don’t carry blame. Eliminate all anxiety about the future. Prepare to work for your evolution until the last instant of your life. Let no one be your judge; be your own judge. If you want to triumph, learn to fail. Never define yourself by what you possess. Never speak about yourself without allowing yourself the possibility to change. Think that you do not exist individually, that what you do does itself. Only by accepting that nothing is yours will you be the owner of all. Become a total offering. Give, but oblige no one to receive. Make no one feel guilty; you are an accomplice to whatever happens. Stop asking for things and start thanking. Obtain in order to give away.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Where the Bird Sings Best

“He’s going to give me a farewell kiss, but what good is it to me now when he never did it before. I would have preferred kisses that began something, not kisses that end things.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Where the Bird Sings Best

“Leaping is as beautiful as crawling: don’t compare yourself; develop your own values. Change your world or change worlds.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Where the Bird Sings Best

“I understand. Seraphim, I hope you know you have a great talent. You are a real artist. What you did in the dining room has a deep meaning. It is, no more or less than the very picture of life as it is lived by all of us poor mortals. We try to sweeten it, but the agreeable part stays on the outside because life is always bitter within.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Where the Bird Sings Best

“The worms have begun to eat the cheese, and no one can stop them. Production will not cease until the planet has completely deteriorated. Few will survive. In a near future, the poor will perhaps have better clothing, housing, and food, but they will still be poor. Which is to say, more and more in debt to power, if not paying with our blood and our lungs, then giving away something as precious as their laughter and their intelligence. The poor man will become a comfortable, serious fool. The obvious conclusion? The main thing is to survive! So that the total collapse of society doesn’t destroy us. But sit down, and let me explain.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Where the Bird Sings Best

“In memory, everything can become miraculous. All you have to do is wish it, and freezing winter turns into spring, miserable rooms fill up with golden tapestries, murderers turn good, and children who cry out from loneliness receive compassionate teachers who are really the children themselves, sent back from adulthood to their early years. Yes, my daughter, the past is not fixed and unalterable. With faith and will we can change it, not erasing its darkness but adding light to make it more and more beautiful, the way a diamond is cut.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Where the Bird Sings Best

“Stop daydreaming and listen to the story of how Benjamín lost all his hair. “One spring morning, a circus wagon painted like a carriage from the funeral parlor pulled by two skeletal horses decorated with black plumes passed along our street, heading for the town square. A man wearing a skeleton costume held the reins. Next to him sat a female dwarf dressed as the Angel of the Last Judgment, playing a sad melody on an old trumpet. Attracted by their sinister looks, we ran to see the performance.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Where the Bird Sings Best

“I knew I would be forever isolated, desolate, useless. Life? To be born for no reason, to suffer constantly, to die ignorant. God? Extant but unreachable. Blind, deaf, and mute for His creatures. Human society? A prison filled with lunatics, thieves, and drunks.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Where the Bird Sings Best

“There is a precise instant when the world is marvelous: now.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Where the Bird Sings Best

“His people had known innumerable catastrophes, and an age-old instinct made him give himself over to true time, the time that cannot be measured, where twenty years pass like an hour and a second can last a thousand years.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Where the Bird Sings Best

“During these past years, not being able to speak with you, I dedicated myself to reviewing, within myself, the sacred books I know by heart. I had the idea I should summarize them in a single volume. Then, in a single chapter, then in a single page, and finally in a single sentence. This sentence is the greatest thing I can teach you. It seems simple, but if you understand it, you will never have to study again." The Rabbi recited it. And life, from that moment on, changed for Alejandro. "If God is not here, He is nowhere; this instant itself is perfection.”
― Alejandro Jodorowsky, Where the Bird Sings Best