“For the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops.” — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“The only thing I have learned from life is to endure it, never to question it, and to burn up the longing… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“When I look at a beautiful painting I have tears in my eyes, but not when I look at my children. That… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“The strange thing about Yngve's nocturnal life was that on occasion he could be heard speaking eastern Norwegian dialect in his sleep.… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“Actually there were only two forms of existence, I reflected: one that was tied to a place and one that wasn't. Both… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“I wanted dad’s life to be seen in that perspective, not the closeup, not the man children feared and who later drank… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“The only thing I have learned from life is to endure it, never to question it, and to burn up the longing… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
We live in the best of worlds. But still, it's like we've lost something on the way to here: a sense of… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“Perhaps they were dead and imagined they were living? Perhaps everyone was dead? Perhaps he’d always been dead? That what he’d always… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
When I started out on 'Min Kamp', I was so extremely frustrated over my life and my writing. I wanted to write… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“For humans are merely one form among many, which the world produces over and over again, not only in everything that lives… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“We read, we learn, we experience, we make adjustments. Then one day we reach the point where all the necessary distances have… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“When you visualized the future and conjured up a world where urban life had spread everywhere and man had achieved his long-desired… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“Then I met Linda and the sun rose. I can't find a better way to express it. The sun rose in my… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“Old age. All the facial detail is visible; all the traces life has left there are to be seen. The face is… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“What makes life worth living? No child asks itself that question. To children life is self-evident. Life goes without saying: whether it… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“A lot happens in our everyday life, but it always happens within the same routine, and more than anything else it has… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“Now I saw his lifeless state. And that there was no longer any difference between what once had been my father and… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“the past is now barely present in my thoughts. I believe the main reason for that is our children, since life with… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“Oh, this is the song about the young man who loves a young woman. Has he the right to use such a… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“Was it Jesus you saw a picture of?” he says and looks up at me. If it had not been for the… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“For, while previously I saw time as a stretch of terrain that had to be covered, with the future as a distant… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“Life's a pitch, as the old woman said. She couldn't pronounce her 'b's.” — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“Few things are harder to visualise than that a cold snowbound landscape, so marrow-chillingly quiet and lifeless, will, within mere months, be… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
When I wrote my fictional novels, they always had a starting point of something real. Those images that are not real are exactly the… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“When I look at a beautiful painting I have tears in my eyes, but not when I look at my children. That does not… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“I was a wannabe who was actually unable to write because I had nothing to say, who wasn’t honest enough with himself to draw… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
A problem with my novels is that they, from the start, have been infantile and incredibly childish. There are childishness, stupidity, lack of wisdom,… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“Writing isn't black magic. You just have to come up with an idea...” — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“It was a fantastic feeling, but it left me restless because the most important thing in it was the longing, for what was going… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“the past is now barely present in my thoughts. I believe the main reason for that is our children, since life with them in… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“I loved it, I loved the feeling, it was my favorite feeling, but it never led to anything good, and the day after or… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
“Actually there were only two forms of existence, I reflected: one that was tied to a place and one that wasn't. Both had always… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
