Bjorneboe Quotes

#1. If literature provides solutions, if it provides answers, then it is lying. Rooted in reality as it is, it can only contribute towards posing the questions more sharply and clearly and more drastically than before. In my opinion, creative literature is an empirical science.

Jens Bjorneboe

#2. For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

Paul Goldberger

#3. They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized syphilitic.

Jens Bjorneboe

#4. He who hasn't experienced a full depression alone and over a long period of time
he is a child.

Jens Bjorneboe

#5. On returning to Germany, he rejoined Hitler, whom he believed to be the only man who could make Germany great again.

Philip Jose Farmer

#6. Are the grapes bitter or sweet? You have to taste.

Marty Rubin

#7. All sailors are afraid of the sea. They know what it is.

Jens Bjorneboe

#8. It doesn't matter what you love,
it matters only that you love.

Jens Bjorneboe

#9. I am happy today - completely happy - because I died twenty years ago; furthermore I'm happy because I die daily. Every day, at eleven o' clock, I've died twice........After eleven o'clock I'm done with dying for that day.

Jens Bjorneboe

#10. I am not offering God as a theory to compete with scientific theories about the universe. Rather I am saying that those self-contained, secular theories provide evidence for theologically neutral premises in philosophical arguments leading to a conclusion that has theistic significance.

William Lane Craig

#11. Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.

Mario Batali

#12. More people have died at the end of a loaded gun than from an empty stomach.

Tahereh Mafi

#13. In the real world, he and I could never work. I kissed him just that much harder and pushed all thoughts of why this was wrong to the back of my mind and surrendered to all the reasons it felt right.

Braxton Cole

#14. This is a 911? You know you only text that when someone is dead or dying. You scared the crap out of me.

Sarah Dessen

#15. Sometimes being overwhelmed by emotions can leave you speechless but even then it is important to identify the correct emotion.

Sam Owen

#16. The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche