Quotes by Swedish Authors - Page 2

Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.
Fredrik Backman
When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters,I was the kid in a grey hoodie, walking with the poets, the singers, the thinkers, and I was not alone.
Charlotte Eriksson
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Get to know who you are not, because when you know your ego the Truth of who you are will also become clear.
Maria Erving
Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity.
Stieg Larsson
It is necessary for us to have an imperfect freedom so that we can give ... if we cannot give anything to God, we do not have a share in his Spirit, who by his very nature is Gift.
Wilfrid Stinissen
I feel ugly” I said and you looked at me as if I spoke a different language. There are things you will never understand and if there were words to describe the rapture that takes place in my head from time to time I would put my hand in front of your eyes to protect you from all the ugliness in the world. I kept my eyes on the streetlights outside the window and you kissed every inch of my body as if you could kiss the pain away.
Charlotte Eriksson
I’m still lonely and it’s a glorification of something I’m not finished with. I don’t want to be distracted from my work by other people, but the absence of it all distracts me from my work and that’s why I run towards the city, to get a little glimpse of it.
Charlotte Eriksson
That which didn't kill them made them stranger.
Katarina Bivald
Snow is like a wide sea. One could go out and be lost in it and forget the world, and oneself.
Greta Garbo
It's possible to love your grandmother for years and years without really knowing anything about her.
Fredrik Backman
I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.
Charlotte Eriksson
Nature might be a great experimentalist, but one who would never pass muster with an ethics review board – contravening the Helsinki Declaration and every norm of moral decency, left, right, and center.
Nick Bostrom
..chaos is the neighbour of God: but everything's usually neat and tidy in hell...
Håkan Nesser
People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between!
Charlotte Eriksson
It seemed hardly feasible that anyone could tune an oil barrel, and even less credible that the barrel could make music like nothing else in the world. She thought those sounds were magic.
Stieg Larsson
Seasons happened and things got colder and harder and suddenly I found myself smoking circles in the airby myself in the snowand I was not okay.
Charlotte Eriksson
I'd grown to trust Mr. Bradshaw, even though he was the one who had taught me how to lie. Not to mention the day he lectured me on how to get close to someone to find out the truth about them, as if he was the ultimate expert. Nevertheless, I trusted him. I really did.
Embee
Revenge is like politics, one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.
Jonas Jonasson
I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.
Charlotte Eriksson
When YOU choose to change, your reality must change accordingly. It simply has no other choice.
Gordana Biernat
Your uncompromising attitude makes people feel pathetic. Your very existence reminds them just how much they’ve sold out, and the more you’re acclaimed, the punier they themselves appear. When it’s like that, the only way they can fight back is by dragging you down. The bullshit gives them back a little bit of dignity – at least that’s what they imagine.
David Lagercrantz
Only one feat is possible: not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Life only demands from the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjöld
6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,and I still don’t know which month it was thenor what day it is now.Blurred out linesfrom hangovers to coffeeanother vagabond lost to love.
Charlotte Eriksson
We have found that the values of the constants of nature have not been fine-tuned for life by accident, but that these values are constrained by and logically follow from the fundamental space-time organization of the Cosmic Tree of Life.
Carl Johan Calleman
And now she stood outside the station with his flowers pressed happily to her breast, in all that red cardigan of hers, making the rest of the world look as if it was made in greyscale.
Fredrik Backman
There are very few friends that will lie down with you on empty streets in the middle of the night, without a word. No questions, no asking why, just quietly lay there with you, observing the stars, until you're ready to get back up on your feet again and walk the last bit home, softly holding your hand as a quiet way of saying “I'm here”.It was a beautiful night.
Charlotte Eriksson
Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?
Greta Garbo
Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.
Stieg Larsson
Our heart is actually already open, but it is our judgments about others and ourselves that keep it closed. When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open. The way to healing is to learn to love and accept ourselves unconditionally. It means to embrace both our positive and negative sides with love. It means to love everything that we find inside ourselves. Healing happens when we bring everything that we find inside ourselves out into the light.
Swami Dhyan Giten
I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.
Claes Oldenburg
As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe.
Katarina Bivald
You are to me like white islands, in a world of vast darkness.
Charlotte Eriksson
This is the story of how I "came down with cat," even though I had decided I would never, ever, own any pet.
Nils Uddenberg
One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.
Fredrik Backman
I counted the living and gathered them within me and the light that broke through embraced all the life that I had within me...
Linda Boström Knausgård
Inspiration is everywhere.
Charlotte Eriksson
To experience more synchronicity and 'coincidences' we need to listen and be aware of the world around us and also our intuition.That's how the universe speaks to itself, it's an ongoing flow of information that comes from both the outside and from within.Pay attention to how the universe speaks to you today and participate in the flow by being attentive and by listening to your inner voice.
Maria Erving
I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings.
Tomas Tranströmer
Man, when he is re-born, passes through the ages as he who is born; and the preceding state is always as an egg in respect to the subsequent one, thus he is continually conceived and born: and this not only when he lives in the world, but also when he comes into another life to eternity: and still when he cannot be further perfected, then to be as an egg to those things which remain to be manifested, which are indefinite.
Emanuel Swedenborg
At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betrayed on a small scale the inspiration of a poet, the research of a scientist, the good taste of an artist, the gourmet’s fondness for good food, and the love of flowers, which concealed in their delicate shadows a hint of the love of women
August Strindberg
Despite 2000 years of evolution in modern times, we have still not managed to develop the intelligence to create a society that knows what love is. Our society is still not a civilization, it is still primitive and barbaric.
Swami Dhyan Giten
Sex is the alpha and enlightenment is the omega. Sex is the first step of the spiritual journey, and enlightenment is the last step of the spiritual journey.
Swami Dhyan Giten
You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things and your surroundings. You need to build your home in your own simple existence, not in friends, lovers, your career or material belongings, because these are things you will lose one day.
Charlotte Eriksson
Stay humble as a writer: write on toilet paper.
Jonas Eriksson
He laughs again and I want to eat his laughter, be nourished by it, feel it in my blood.
Lene Fogelberg
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Ingrid Bergman
I want people to feel safe around me. Calm and at peace and I want to make people feel accepted. I want to express confidence on my own path, and spread confidence to other people on theirs.
Charlotte Eriksson
Truth shines light on darkness by questioning it.
Maria Erving
There's something quite special about a granny's house. Even if ten or twenty or thirty years go by, you never forget how it smells.
Fredrik Backman
No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does straight to our emotions deep into the twilight room of the soul.
Ingmar Bergman
Presence is to meet another person in meditation. Presence is to invite another person in meditation. It is a meeting in love, joy, acceptance, sincerity, truth, silence and oneness.
Swami Dhyan Giten
Horizons, cheap whisky straight from the bottleand your hands in mine.
Charlotte Eriksson
Intuition is already in contact with Existence. Intuition is already in contact with that, which is larger than ourselves.
Swami Dhyan Giten
All people at root are time optimists. We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'.
Fredrik Backman
It is astonishing to realize that growing up actually means to become one with Existence. It means to find the whole Existence within myself, it means to discover that Existence is alive in my own heart and being. The song of a bird echoes my own inner voice, the beauty of a flower reflects my own inner beauty, a dog becomes an expression of my own unconditional love and friendship, the majestic mountains create an exstatic joy, and I discover all the shining stars of the sky within my own heart. It is to realize that the whole Existence is alive, and that the underlying thread of consciousness is God.
Swami Dhyan Giten
I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls to be careful and ”the world is an ugly place and not everyone wants you well”. But I was not afraid and I wished for adrenaline to make my veins pulsate in that way that puts them more on the outside of my skin than inside.After the first night with you I never walked alone at night again because suddenly I had something to lose. Something to save.
Charlotte Eriksson
I was going to die.tI was going to die, right now, right here, before I even had a chance to thoroughly apologize to anyone for what I’d done...before I had a chance to forgive myself.tI wasn’t even going to leave with a bang, one final act of dignity or at least the thought that I still belonged somewhere; I would die without even the simple acceptance that I’d done everything I could.tTears welled in my eyes, but I didn’t let them fall. I didn’t want to die crying.
Embee
You do not become outstanding by working on your weaknesses.You become outstanding by focusing entirely on your strengths.
Gordana Biernat