174 Quotes by Jo Nesbø

Don't think about what you are searching for. Think about what you find. Why is that there? Should it be there? What does it mean? It's like reading - if you think about an "l" while looking at a "k", you won't see the words.

Albert Camus twierdził, że samobójstwo to jedyny prawdziwy problem w filozofii -powiedział Aune, pociągając nosem na widok szarego nieba nad Bogstadveien. - Ponieważrozstrzygnięcie, czy warto żyć, czy nie warto, to odpowiedź na zasadnicze pytanie w filozofii.Wszystko inne, czy świat ma trzy wymiary, a duch dziewięć czy dwanaście kategorii,przychodzi później.

The problem is that only thirty to forty per cent of all words can be read directly from the lips. To understand the rest you have to study the face and body language, and use your linguistic instincts and logic to insert the missing words. Thinking is as important as seeing.

Evolutionary speaking, the practice of taking revenge has shown itself to be so effective that only the most vengeful of us have survived. Vengeance or death. It sounds like the title of a western, right, but remember it was the logic of retaliation that created the constitutional state. The enshrined promise of an eye for an eye, the sinner burning in hell or at least dangling from the gallows. Revenge is basically the foundation of civilisation.

There is nothing that makes a man grow beyond his stature than a woman telling him she loves him. and however much she might have lied to him, there will always be a part of him that is grateful to her for this, and that will harbour some love for her.

The truth is that no one lives off the truth and that's why no one cares about the truth. The truth we make for ourselves is just the sum of what is in someone's interest, balanced by the power they hold.

I suppose you think it strange that people can walk around smiling on a day like today...I suppose you take it as a personal affront that the sun is playing on the leaves at a time when you'd rather see the world collapse in misery and weep tears. Well, Harry, my friend, what can I say to you? Things aren't like that.

Perhaps he had discovered some answers, but not all of them. never all of them. Like whether madness and evil are two different entities, or whether when we no longer understand the purpose of destruction we simply term it madness. (...) Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.

You are as old as you feel. So I reckon I'm about sixty.