26 Quotes by Janne Teller

Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That’s how it is with everything.

The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without the notion of Nation.

Then how come everyone’s making like everything that isn’t important is very important, all the while they’re so busy pretending what’s really important isn’t important at all?

We need to realise we are Europeans before we belong to a region or a Nation.

And because we knew what we had lost but weren’t as yet able to put into words what it was we had gained.

The reason dying is so easy is because death has no meaning... And the reason death has no meaning is because life has no meaning. All the same, have fun! Pierre Anthon.

Spring was nothing but a reminder to us that we, too, would soon be gone.

We cried because we had lost something and gained something else. And because it hurt both losing and gaining.