"Keep your relationships brief. Don’t let them in.……" — John Ajvide Lindqvist
"Keep your relationships brief. Don’t let them in. Once they’re inside they have more potential to hurt you. Comfort yourself. You can live with the anguish as long as it only involves yourself. As long as there is no hope."
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John Ajvide Lindqvist
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16 Quotes by John Ajvide Lindqvist
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That's how things are these days: everything must move aside to make room for the new, all the time.
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It was as if she lived only on clear, salty air, and when the day came for her to pass…
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Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another.
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Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.
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For a few seconds Oskar saw through Eli's eyes. And what he saw was...himself. Only much better, more handsome, stronger…
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A new life? There’s not such thing. It was only in the magazine headlines that people got a new life.…
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They stood there for a while, not saying anything. Then Eli said: 'Do you want to come in?' Oskar didn't…
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But then, it's probably different when you're young.
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This wasn't the way he had expected his life to be. It worked, but that was about all. Happiness had…
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He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that…
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-there was something in her, something that was...pure horror. Everything you were supposed to watch out for. Heights, fire, shards…
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What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood.…
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity,…
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
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There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
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The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists,…
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,…
— Leonard Cohen
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Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and…
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what…
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
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At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all…
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Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night,…
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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
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