When she enters the room she immediately shuts the window and draws the shade with a quick, hard pull. Then she throws herself down on the bed, and the sobbing starts all over again. It's as if she can't sob when she's not in a lying position - either that or she has to start sobbing the moment she lies down.

~ Stig Dagerman

Stig Dagerman Crying Depression Sadness Sobbing Tears Weeping

But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount of dreaming, not then and maybe not ever, can change how naked and unimportant we become in our own eyes.

~ Stig Dagerman

Stig Dagerman Change Dreaming Forgetting Memory Remembering Self Respect Self Worth Time Unimportance Value

One day a year let’s all pretendthat death is tucked up, fast asleep.That no lives meet a tragic end,no dreams are shattered on the cheap.The world’s at peace, there are no wars,we hug our friend, our former foe.No beggars die outside locked doors,all cells are empty on death row.Nobody’s stabbed, nobody’s shot,no car runs over someone’s friend.This can’t be true! – Well, maybe not.All I’m saying is: let’s pretend.

~ Stig Dagerman

Stig Dagerman Death Mercy War

Journalism is the art of coming too late as early as possible. I’ll never master that.

~ Stig Dagerman

Stig Dagerman Journalism Letter