Krasznahorkai Quotes

#1. I came to feel that, in addition to Imre Kertesz, Hungary has produced at least three contemporary novelists who deserve the Nobel: Peter Nadas, Peter Esterhazy and Laszlo Krasznahorkai.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#2. It is not always necessary to search for the cause behind everything, because every cause is unfounded. A cause only looks like a cause from a certain viewpoint.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

#3. The light gave him hope but he was afraid of it too.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

#4. What one ought to capture in beauty is that which is treacherous and irresistible ...

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

#5. I no longer care if I die, said Korin, then, after a long silence, pointed to the nearby flooded quarry: Are those swans?

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

#6. Bough of a tree to the rain ... he turns the phrase over in his mouth as if it were fine wine, trying to guess its vintage, realizing somewhat indifferently that it is beyond him.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

#7. I know that light is not for me, save that of the moon over the rock tombs of Neb, nor any gaiety save the unnamed feasts of Nitokris beneath the Great Pyramid; yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage.

H.P. Lovecraft

#8. Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to the current government.

Saul Landau

#9. You have every cause for anxiety. we are on the threshold of a more searching, more honest, more open society. there are new times just around the corner

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

#10. It passes, but it does not pass away.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

#11. A born king is a very rare being.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#12. Lin beamed, and threw a couple of triumphant middle fingers in the air.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#13. Only the land remained, the silent order of the mountains, the ground covered in fallen dead leaves in the enormous space, a boundless expanse - disguising, concealing, hiding, covering all that lies below the burning earth.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

#14. When I am not reading Kafka I am thinking about Kafka. When I am not thinking about Kafka I miss thinking about him. Having missed thinking about him for a while, I take him out and read him again. That's how it works.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

#15. But let us imagine RIGHT NOW that we find out about a world where there are artists who paint without brushes, make music without instruments, and write without pen and paper. The very thought makes me happy. That this world could be ours, right here and now.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

#16. In this world, hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed. This is the ancient and eternal law.

Jack Kornfield

#17. I'm not interested to believe in something, but to understand the people who believe.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

#18. Get it into your thick head that jokes are just like life. Things that begin badly, end badly. Everything's fine in the middle, it's the end you need to worry about.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

#19. There is an intense relationship between proximate objects, a much weaker one between objects further away, and as for the really distant ones there is none at all, and that is the nature of God.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

#20. Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

#21. Culture, then, only truly becomes culture when it is embodied in someone.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai

#22. The noise of the rain seemed to have grown a little fainter but then it pelted down again.

Laszlo Krasznahorkai