Peter Høeg Quotes

When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left. You can demand something like this of yourself as an unattainable ideal. After that, you have to remind yourself about it every time you're sloppy about something. For me that means 250 times a day.

~ Peter Høeg

Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, the piercing knowledge that we ourselves will someday die, and the love of snow are in reality not some sudden events; maybe they were always present. Maybe they never completely vanish, either.

~ Peter Høeg

Back then I could not understand one word of what I read.Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot understand what you are reading you can get something from books.

~ Peter Høeg

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

~ Peter Høeg

On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.

~ Peter Høeg

He has a light, fumbling brutality, which several times makes me think that this time it’ll cost me my sanity. In our dawning, mutual intimacy, I induce him to open the little slit in the head of his penis so I can put my clitoris inside and fuck him.

~ Peter Høeg

A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of energy in the universe. And a child who dies-that's an abomination.

~ Peter Høeg

It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.

~ Peter Høeg

The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.

~ Peter Høeg

If you have to wait for a long time, you have to seize hold of the waiting or it will become destructive. If you let things slide, your consciousness will waver, awakening fear and restlessness, then depression strikes, and you're pulled down.

~ Peter Høeg

With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don't have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or fight my own personality or figure out diesel engines.

~ Peter Høeg

Love has something to do with recognition, We can be fascinated by the unknown, we can be attracted by it, but love is something that grows, slowly, in an atmosphere of trust.

~ Peter Høeg

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.

~ Peter Høeg

No person can open another person, All we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occur.s.

~ Peter Høeg

Basker possesses three kinds of bite: a snap, a nip, and then something like a buzz saw and an angle grinder mounted on a bear trap.

~ Peter Høeg

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.

~ Peter Høeg

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.

~ Peter Høeg

Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.

~ Peter Høeg

One should be good to oneself. Especially when one is alone.

~ Peter Høeg

One can only ask to play as well as possible the notes one is given.

~ Peter Høeg

Cantor illustrated the concept of infinity for his students by telling them that there was once a man who had a hotel with an infinite number of rooms, and the hotel was fully occupied. Then one more guest arrived. So the owner moved the guest in room number 1 into room number 2; the guest in room number 2 into number 3; the guest in 3 into room 4, and so on. In that way room number 1 became vacant for the new guest.What delights me about this story is that everyone involved, the guests and the owner, accept it as perfectly natural to carry out an infinite number of operations so that one guest can have peace and quiet in a room of his own. That is a great tribute to solitude.

~ Peter Høeg

No matter how close people get, they never reach each other. Including us now. Even now, there's a place where each of us is alone.

~ Peter Høeg

... Because one who seeks the highest must not leave any path untried.

~ Peter Høeg

We all try to camouflage the monotony, But it takes a lot of energy. To insist on being special all the time. When we're so much like one another anyway. Our triumphs are the same. Our pain. Try for a moment to feel what relief there is in the ordinary.

~ Peter Høeg

Deep within every blind, absolute love grows a hatred toward the beloved, who now holds the only existing key to happiness

~ Peter Høeg

Every theoretical explanation is a reduction of intuition.

~ Peter Høeg

Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

~ Peter Høeg

There is a pleasant firmness of tone when one is in harmony with oneself. Even when it's a weak ethic one is resonating with.

~ Peter Høeg

The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.

~ Peter Høeg