Top 33 Knausgaard Quotes
#1. I have a longing for fiction, to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#2. For life, it's very, very bad to be sensitive, but for a writer, it's very good.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#3. I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to me as much as Mary Jane from Youngstown writing me a letter. There is not one. Don't need it, don't want it, don't require it, does not fill up my soul. It's about her, not about the rest of it.
Adriana Trigiani
#4. Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
Hannah Arendt
#6. My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#7. He isn't at all sweet. But if I wanted sugar, I'd eat a fucking cupcake. I
A. Zavarelli
#10. Other dancers weave through our lives, sometimes stirring our deep soul's fires.
Jay Woodman
#11. Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#12. When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#13. The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#14. I was the kind to endure. No one had said you couldn't become a better person through endurance.
Knausgaard, Karl Ove
#15. I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#17. Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#18. It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#19. Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.
Paulo Freire
#20. I'm giving away my family's story. Who owns the family's story? I don't. But you could turn it around and ask, 'Who is to deny me to write my family's story?' I have hurt people, but I don't think in a dangerous way. But you can't tell.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#21. The Cross will be for us as it was for Christ: proof of the greatest love.
Mother Teresa
#22. I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will haunt them as well through their lives. Why did I do that to them?
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#23. Who's that?" Yngve said, nodding discreetly in the direction of a woman. She wore a hat with a veil that concealed her face. "No idea," I said. "But all self-respecting funerals have a woman no one recognizes." We laughed. "Well, the danger's over now," Yngve said, and we both laughed again.
Knausgaard, Karl Ove
#24. If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you're gonna make it happen.
Mariah Carey
#25. When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#26. I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#27. Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#28. My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd done it - the people I'd written about.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#29. As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're laughing at me because I'm not funny. And I'm thinking, 'Who cares? They're laughing.' If you go on stage, and they're laughing at you full-on for 60 minutes? You know, whatever puts them in the seats.
Larry The Cable Guy
#30. Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Socrates
#32. Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#33. The difficult thing for me is that I want basically to be a good man. That's what I want to be.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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