Quotes from “Doctor Glas” by Hjalmar Soderberg
September 30, 2007 – 9:52 pm“We want to be loved; failing that, admired; failing that, feared; failing that, hated and despised. At all costs we want to stir up some sort of feeling in others. Our soul abhors vacuum. At all costs it longs for contact.”
“The world isn’t kind to those who love. And in the end it leads into darkness, for them and for all of us.”
“All philosophy lives by, and wholly feeds on, is verbal ambiguities… If we are to talk philosophy to any purpose language must be remade from the ground up.”
“Markel: But even if I agree to your way of using words, that doesn’t mean it’s true that every one seeks happiness. There are people who haven’t any gift for it all and are painfully and ruthlessly aware of the fact. Such people don’t seek happiness, only to get a little form and style into their unhappiness .
And, suddenly without warning, he added:
–Glas is one of them
This last astounded me.”
“In reality, surely, this is what is always happening: we know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.”
“And what is moonshine? Secondhand sunshine. Diluted, counterfeit.”
One Response to “Quotes from “Doctor Glas” by Hjalmar Soderberg”
Hello.
Martha Louise, who is the only daughter of King Harald and Queen Sonja, gave up the title of ‘royal highness’ upon her 2002 marriage to writer Ari, and has a reputation for not standing on ceremony.
Bye.
By Artellaleseep on Oct 12, 2008