Hjalmar Soderberg Quotes

#1. Nothing so reduces and drags down a human being as the consciousness of not being loved.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#2. I believe in the lust of the flesh and the incurable desolation of the soul.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#3. Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous."
"Who made up that rule?"
"It's a known fact ...

David Eddings

#4. My parents taught me the way to deal with being picked on was to be compassionate. I had to defend myself physically, but I had to be compassionate and understand the position of those abusing me. I had to figure it out and then rise above it.

Saul Rubinek

#5. I used to hate L.A., but I met such a great group of people there that I fell in love with it.

Alber Elbaz

#6. One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to instill some sort of emotion in people. The soul trembles before emptiness and desires contact at any price.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#7. Getting the Games for London has been the fulfilment of a dream. It is one which I truly believe can change the lives of hundreds of thousands of young people for the better. But in the end, nothing can quite compare with winning your first Olympic gold medal.

Sebastian Coe

#8. We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#9. Every day you have to reinvent yourself

Oscar De La Renta

#10. Truth is like the sun, its value wholly depends upon our being at a correct distance away from it.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#11. You were in a driving him away phase?" Paula asked and my eyes went to her. "Babe, are you loco?

Kristen Ashley

#12. Though there may be others out there with problems bigger, that doesn't make yours any smaller.

Megan Linski

#13. Do not go to the bottom of things, or you will go to the bottom yourself.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#14. A pregnant woman is a frightful object. A new-born child is loathsome. A deathbed rarely makes so horrible an impression as childbirth, that terrible symphony of screams and filth and blood.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#15. Potemkin only deceived his empress;
how much more despicable to deceive oneself.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#16. People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The soul shudders before oblivion and seeks connection at any price.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#17. The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.

Studs Terkel

#18. One grey hair appeared on my head
I plucked it out with my hand.
It answered me: You have prevailed against me alone -
What will you do when my army comes after me?

Yehuda HaLevi

#19. We want to be loved; failing that, admired; failing that, feared; failing that, hated and despised. At all costs we want to stir up some sort of feeling in others. Our soul abhors a vacuum. At all costs it longs for contact.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#20. For youth, the moon is a promise of all those tremendous things which await it, for older people a memento that the promise was never kept, a reminder of all that broke and went to pieces ...
And what is moonshine? Secondhand sunshine. Diluted, counterfeit.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#21. He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one can always find circumstances that alter cases

Hjalmar Soderberg

#22. We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Ralph Waldo Emerson