Absence Quote by Pascal Mercier

To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it…

— Pascal Mercier

What did i know of your fantasies? Why do we know so little about the fantasies of our parents? What do we know of…

— Pascal Mercier

“One who would really like to know himself would have to be a restless, fanatical collector of disappointments, and seeking disappointing experiences must be…

— Pascal Mercier

SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely,…

— Pascal Mercier

Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.

— Pascal Mercier

“For that is the meaning of a farewell in the full, important sense of the word: that the two people, because they part, come…

— Pascal Mercier

Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause…

— Pascal Mercier

“After a while, he understood that he was experiencing a great liberation; the liberation from his self-imposed limitation, from a slowness and heaviness expressed…

— Pascal Mercier

“We can be sure that we will hold on to the deathbed as part of the last balance sheet – and this part will…

— Pascal Mercier

“NOBREZA SILENCIOSA. SILENT NOBILITY. It is a mistake to believe that the crucial moments of a life when its habitual direction changes forever must…

— Pascal Mercier

“Because the one who wishes it – isn’t the one who, still untouched by the future, stands at the crossroads. Instead, it is the…

— Pascal Mercier

It is not the pain and the wounds that are the worst. The worst is the humiliation.

— Pascal Mercier