Guillermo del Toro Quotes

You simplify because you cannot believe. You reduce; you diminish. Because you were raised to doubt and debunk. To reduce to a small set of knowns for easy digestion. Because you are a doctor, a man of science, and because this is America—where everything is known and understood, and God is a benevolent dictator, and the future must always be bright.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

Nothing can unman you like an un-man.

Every mundanity of life grows infinitely more precious in the face of impending death.

Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic cave. We naturally believe ourselves clever and wise, so advanced, and those who came before us so naïve and simple… when all we truly do is echo the order of the universe, as it guides us…

Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.

You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you’ve broken — rather than being careful with them in the first place.

Wine fermented from the worst berries tasted sweetest.

When the power of Jesus fails you, then you know you truly are s*** out of luck.

What is life, in the end, but a series of small victories and larger failures?

Weakness is giving in to temptation. Strength is resisting it.

We’re in three living groups, ’cause even after the world’s ended some a**holes still can’t get along.