Life Quote by Peter Wessel Zapffe

“Og er ikke klippen sin tilbedelse værd? Prøver den ikke hjerte og nyrer før den gir plas for de utvalgte?”

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does…

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

“A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without…

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

“The dread of being stares us in the eye, and in a deadly gush we perceive how the minds are dangling in threads of…

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

“But as he stands before imminent death, he grasps its nature also, and the cosmic import of the step to come. His creative imagination…

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

When a human being takes his life in depression, this is a natural death of spiritual causes. The modern barbarity of 'saving' the suicidal…

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

“Se i mig en 96 graders venn.”

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

“Life had overshot its target, blowing itself apart. A species had been armed too heavily – by spirit made almighty without, but equally a…

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

“Jeg ligger og kjender at jeg hader dette forbandede fjeld, fordi det har makt over mitt sind. Hvad vil du mig - at jeg…

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house.

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

“Aftenen endte med idyll. Håkon kaldte mig genial, og jeg svarte at han var en stor menneskekjender.”

— Peter Wessel Zapffe