Erik Christian Haugaard Quotes

#1. We were happy. I know I ought to be able to tell you about it, yet I cannot, for while a nightmare will stay with you like hunger, when you awake from a happy dream, you have no memory of it.

Erik Christian Haugaard

#2. there are those who are cursed to live in times when death seems to come out of season, when the winter of a man's life may leap upon him in the midst of summer greenness.

Erik Christian Haugaard

#3. What I have told you is not completely true. You should beware, for often in this story, my words will be spoken out of bitterness, out of hate. The scream of the poor is not always just; but if you do not listen to it, then you will never understand justice.

Erik Christian Haugaard

#4. No-one can own our Lord Buddha. That would be a foolish claim, but the roads that lead to him, the Way... That is a different matter. They are all filled with toll-gates, like the roads of Japan, and the monks collect the fees.

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#5. The young need their sleep and their dreams; only we who are old dream best when we are awake.

Erik Christian Haugaard

#6. Now he understood clearly that roads do divide, at the crossroad there is a choice, and blinding oneself to it is a form of choosing, too; it is the fool's way, the coward's way.

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#7. I was not frightened as they were, for the very violence of his threats showed how weak he was.

Erik Christian Haugaard

#8. The fairy tale belongs to the poor ... I know of no fairy tale which upholds the tyrant, or takes the part of the strong against the weak. A fascist fairy tale is an absurdity.

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#9. Mans vanity transgresses death

Erik Christian Haugaard

#10. I am sure that there is many a young man who would think it a great honor to exchange his name for yours.

Erik Christian Haugaard