Nesser Hakan Quotes & Sayings

A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim. — Natalie Massenet

The word came into her mind just as quickly as it had done yesterday. "Crap." She hadn't been able to hold it back then - it had flown out of her mouth like an angry and hotheaded little swallow, and in a flash it had changed into a big cloud. — Hakan Nesser

It's not easy being human. Especially when you are tired and overworked all the time ... That's when you become inhuman. — Hakan Nesser

Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay. — Lee Westwood

Shitty weather. You wonder how people can raise the strength to go out and kill one another. — Hakan Nesser

You will find out who you are when the difficult moment comes. — Hakan Nesser

Haos is the neighbour of God: but everything's usually neat and tidy in hell ... — Hakan Nesser

The dead are older than the living, he thought. Irrespective of how old they were when they passed over to the other side, they have experienced something which makes them older than any living thing. — Hakan Nesser

Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly. — Loretta Young

It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration, and we suffer from poverty, and we are auto-marginalized. — Jose Mujica

I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels. — Maj Sjowall

We are closer to the end of the world than to that minute that has just passed by, because that is lost forever. — Hakan Nesser

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose. — Wilfred Owen

A shit needs to be reminded that he is a shit now and then. — Hakan Nesser

What the hell did people have to keep them occupied on a damp and windy day in January apart from sitting indoors and lapping up the story of somebody who had suffered even more than they were doing. — Hakan Nesser

It's only cows who never change their opinion. — Hakan Nesser

Imagine a twelve-year-old-girl.
Imagine her being attacked, raped and murdered.
Take your time.
Then imagine God.
M. Barin, poet — Hakan Nesser

On some deep, unconscious level, he had always known it to be true. He was an invention, a fictional character. Jacob Lightfoot didn't exist. — Sharon Sant

A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual. — Hakan Nesser

Words and form! We have a totally clear view of the world when we're fourteen years old, maybe sooner. But then we need another fifty years in order to create a language that can express those impressions. And in the mean time, of course, they've faded away. — Hakan Nesser

The ritual works. The forms overcome doubts. We have learned over the centuries to weave meaning around emptiness and pain. A meaning and a pattern. We have been practising that for a very long time. — Hakan Nesser

The living must look after one another, he thought. The worst possible outcome is to die without having lived. — Hakan Nesser

I've had it with all stingy-hearted sons of bitches.
A heart is to be spent. — Stephen Dunn

The waves dying a natural death on the beach seemed to have traveled vast distances bearing neither life nor hope. — Hakan Nesser

Everybody must have a story. For those who don't, we need to invent one. — Hakan Nesser

There are reasons for everything we do. — Hakan Nesser

[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime. — Mahatma Gandhi

Did there come a point, beyond which we no longer look forward to something coming,but only to getting away from what had passed? — Hakan Nesser