“Only the gods have many destinies and need never die. They are filled with everything and experience everything. Everything - except human happiness. That they can never know and therefore they grudge it to men. Nothing makes them so evil… — Pär Lagerkvist Copy Share Image
“And they are deformed though it does not show on the outside. I live only my dwarf life. I never go around tall and smooth-featured. I am ever myself, always the same, I live one life alone. I have no other being inside me. And I recognize everything within me, nothing ever comes up from my inner depths, nothing there… — Pär Lagerkvist Copy Share
“It is incomprehensible that he should want to have these futile people here, and still more incomprehensible that he should be able to sit and listen to them and their stupid chatter. I can understand that he may occasionally listen to poets reciting their verses; they can be regarded as buffoons such as are always kept at court. They laud… — Pär Lagerkvist Copy Share
“Bitter, too, to be forced to acknowledge in one's heart how little love has to do with kindness.” — Pär Lagerkvist Copy Share Image
“-No, the man said, looking past him with his empty gaze, the realm of the dead isn't anything. But to those who have been… — Pär Lagerkvist Copy Share Image
“Eternity… It has nothing to do with life, I thought; it is the contrary to all life. It is something limitless, endless, a realm of… — Pär Lagerkvist Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.” — Pär Lagerkvist Copy Share Image
“Only the gods have many destinies and need never die. They are filled with everything and experience everything. Everything - except human happiness. That… — Pär Lagerkvist Copy Share Image
