Holmqvist Quotes & Sayings

Single people without children have a childish sensitivity and are unwilling or unable to compromise or fit in — Ninni Holmqvist

I've always felt like a kid, and I still feel like a kid, and I've never had any problem tapping into my childhood, and my kid side. — Paul Reubens

(which did not exist before the creation of the income tax in 1913) — Thomas Piketty

The whole point of society is to be less unforgiving than nature. — Arthur D. Hlavaty

I wanted to live a proper life with deep, interwoven relationships for better or worse, which only death could separate. — Ninni Holmqvist

I was happy in the dream; but when I woke up it was with a feeling that I was falling apart, that I was cracking up from the inside and slowly falling to pieces. My heart was jumping and grating like a cold engine that doesn't want to start. My skin was crawling, and I couldn't manage a single clear thought. It was as if all my thoughts were crushed to bits just as they began to take shape. I didn't get much done that day. — Ninni Holmqvist

ONE HUNDRED TIMES have I been on the point of embracing
her. Heavens! what a torment it is to see so much loveliness
passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold
of it! And laying hold is the most natural of human instincts.
Do not children touch everything they see? — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

That's all it was, the dream was just Jock and me and the stick and the beach and the sea and the sky and time passing by, and that was all, there was nothing else. And that was happiness. — Ninni Holmqvist

When I was 20 or 21, I didn't ... I won't say care about anything, but you're like in your own world - you made something that you always wanted to do, and then you kind of think only about your family and yourself. — Thierry Henry

We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose. — Octavian Paler

You haven't forgotten what it feels like to lose a friend because of a child, I hope? If course I hadn't forgotten that feeling of being abruptly pushed out of a close circle to some distant periphery. Coming second, third, fourth, last. Being treated like someone less knowledgeable, someone inferior. — Ninni Holmqvist

Life and existence have no value in themselves. We mean nothing; not even those who are needed mean anything. The only thing of real value is what we produce. — Ninni Holmqvist

People who read books," he went on, "tend to be dispensable. Extremely. — Ninni Holmqvist