35 quotes found
Writer of fiction · Danish · 1957
Danish writer of fiction (born 1957)
“No person can open another person, All we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occur.s.”
“Cantor illustrated the concept of infinity for his students by telling them that there was once a man who had a hotel with an infinite number of rooms, and the hotel was fully occupied. Then one mo...”
“Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.”
“Basker possesses three kinds of bite: a snap, a nip, and then something like a buzz saw and an angle grinder mounted on a bear trap.”
“One should be good to oneself. Especially when one is alone.”
“No matter how close people get, they never reach each other. Including us now. Even now, there's a place where each of us is alone.”
“It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.”
“One can only ask to play as well as possible the notes one is given.”
“... Because one who seeks the highest must not leave any path untried.”
“We all try to camouflage the monotony, But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all the time. When we're so much like one another anyway. Our triumphs are the same. Our pain. Try fo...”
“Deep within every blind, absolute love grows a hatred toward the beloved, who now holds the only existing key to happiness”
“Every theoretical explanation is a reduction of intuition.”
“Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.”
“There is a pleasant firmness of tone when one is in harmony with oneself. Even when it's a weak ethic one is resonating with.”
“The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.”