Tarjei Vesaas famous quotes

Last updated: Jul 22, 2024

  • Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.

  • If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.

  • A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.

  • For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown

  • Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

  • I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

  • You don't need vision to be a visionary.

  • I've rarely said the word "Lord," unless it's followed by "of the Rings.

  • The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.

  • You said everything I needed to hear. I'm hooked now. You have me. What are you going to do with me?