Jon Fosse Quotes

#1. A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.

Camille Paglia

#2. Because if there was one thing he didn't like it was big words, they just lied and covered things up, those big words, they didn't let what really was live and breathe but just carried it off into something that wanted to be big, that's what he thought ...

Jon Fosse

#3. We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy ... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.

Morrie Schwartz.

#4. We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a world of make-belief, in a world of brutality,
violence, despair, anxiety. To live humanly, sanely, one has to change.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#5. The only reason anything's wrong is because someone says it is.

Rose Foster

#6. I never know what you're thinking. Sometimes you're so closed off ... like an island slate. You intimidate me. That's why I keep quiet. I don't know which way your mood is going to go. It swings from north to south and back again in a nanosecond.

E.L. James

#7. And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'

Peter Ackroyd

#8. Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed
it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. 'Bunk' is better than 'Wheel of Fortune' because we have a wheel, just like them, but our wheel is purposeless. It doesn't do anything. It just spins for no reason. Which is nice because it frees our wheel up to really pursue its dream: becoming a professional paddlewheel.

Kurt Braunohler

#10. The looters comes with the carrion crows after every battle.

George R R Martin