Agota Kristof Quotes

#1. Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.

Madame De Stael

#2. A great start to the perfect day - a world-class workout at the gym ... It's hard to feel miserable after a great workout.

Bradford Winters

#3. Everyone else is waiting for eternity and the shamans are saying, 'How about tonight?'

Alberto Villoldo

#4. We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.

Flea

#5. Every one of us commits a fatal mistake sometime in his life. When we realize it, the damage is already done

Agota Kristof

#6. The people have already atoned
For the past and the future

Agota Kristof

#7. It's hardly matters whether it's true or false. The point is the slander. People love scandal

Agota Kristof

#8. Crying is no use, you know. We never cry, even though we aren't men yet, like you

Agota Kristof

#9. Death will obliterate everything soon

Agota Kristof

#10. It is easier to give than to receive, is that it? Pride is a sin, Father

Agota Kristof

#11. People are cruel. They like to kill. It's the war that has taught them that. And there are explosives lying around everywhere

Agota Kristof

#12. I had only one desire: to leave, to walk, to die, whatever. I wanted to get away, never come back, disappear, melt away into the forest, the clouds, no longer have memories, forget, forget.

Agota Kristof

#13. As soon as you begin to think, you can no longer love life

Agota Kristof

#14. My walls no longer protect me. They never protected me. Their solidity is mere illusion, their whiteness is stained

Agota Kristof

#15. You don't want to fight the enemy anymore?"
"I don't want to fight anyone. I have no enemies. I want to go home.

Agota Kristof

#16. To be honest, I've been a passionate advocate for the value of tech to help us connect to people in real and emotional ways - and stick up for myself when people say, 'Sklar! Stop tweeting!'

Rachel Sklar

#17. Don't be sentimental. Everything dies

Agota Kristof

#18. When you see someone like him coming on, with his great pace and desire to take someone on, it is a boost.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#19. And death hasn't come. It never does come when you call it. It enjoys torturing us. I've been calling for it for years and it pays me no attention

Agota Kristof

#20. On our way home we throw the apples, the biscuits, the chocolate and the coins in the tall grass by the roadside. It is impossible to throw away the stroking on our hair

Agota Kristof

#21. I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'

George Clooney

#22. Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.

Toni Morrison