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

~ László Krasznahorkai

László Krasznahorkai Death Despair Warnings

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

~ László Krasznahorkai

László Krasznahorkai Art Culture Individuals Society Values

Europeans believe that culture is something they can grasp and touch because, for them, culture is comprised of objects, or remnants of objects, and this object, this remnant, conceals within it the essence of the original. For the Chinese, the matter is completely different---for them, the essence of culture can only be preserved in spiritual form.

~ László Krasznahorkai

László Krasznahorkai Culture History Meaning That Which Endures Tradition Value

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.

~ László Krasznahorkai

László Krasznahorkai Causes Certainty Explanations Meaning Perspective Point Of View

We have reached the end of one era, and now we don't know what is all around us. Because we're already in a new era, and it is very different from the old one. Science and the world of technology are both changing everything so quickly, even our bodies. So the original ancient culture was present here, but to no avail, at this point in history it has come to stop. It still has some effect, some kind of continuity, but it cannot analyse and reformulate things, it cannot impact things with absolute strength. The age to follow will be full of dangers. It will be full of difficulties. In all likelihood, it will not be a good future for mankind. It is even possible this new era will mean the end of mankind.

~ László Krasznahorkai

László Krasznahorkai 21St Century Culture End Times Outlook Pessimism Predictions The Future Warnings

Irimiás: God is not made manifest in language, you dope. He's not manifest in anything. He doesn't exist... God was a mistake. I've long understood there is zero difference between me and a bug, or a bug and a river, or a river and a voice shouting above it. There's no sense or meaning in anything. It's nothing but a network of dependency under enormous fluctuating pressures. It's only our imaginations, not our senses, that continually confront us with failure and the false belief that we can raise ourselves by our own bootstraps from the miserable pulp of delay. There's no escaping that, stupid.

~ László Krasznahorkai

László Krasznahorkai Atheism Nihilism