Quote by Jostein Gaarder Download Open image ““is it true that sometimes you're so suspicious, you turn quite black inside?”” — Jostein Gaarder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of having good intentions.” — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
“I never investigate; sometimes the most terrible thing of all is to confirm what you have only imagined.” — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“So much that seems harmless in daylight turns imposing in the dark. What else, you had to wonder, was only a trick of light?” — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“You squint hard enough, and everything starts to look suspicious.” — Brian Staveley Copy Share Image
“The world is a beautiful place, unless you close your eyes. Then it's easy to assume it's all black.” — Luke Alistar Copy Share Image
“Sometimes what is in front of you and what you are seeing isn’t really so. It can, in fact, be quite deceptive.” — Ella Frank Copy Share Image
“But I was naturally suspicious; it comes from working too closely with the police for too long. Cynicism is so contagious.” — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe nothing's wrong and I'm just paranoid. I'll know when they come in. I'll see it in their faces.” — Carla Speed McNeil Copy Share Image
“I no longer feel the need to see and sense more than I've already experienced. I just want so desperately to hang on what… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws in the… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“As soon as she concentrated on being alive now, the thought of dying also came into her mind.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Po haljini sam mogao da vidim kako njeno telo diše, jer se haljina dizala i spuštala, dizala i spuštala, skoro kao da morski talasi… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“The German poet Goethe once said that "he who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth." I don't want you to end up in such a sad state. I will do what I can to acquaint you with your historical roots. It is the only way to become a human being. It is the only… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share
“Sophie left the den and wandered about in the large garden. She tried to forget what she had learned at school, especially in science classes. If she had grown up in this garden without knowing anything at all about nature, how would she feel about the spring? Would she try to invent some kind of explanation for why it suddenly… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share
...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
