Peter Høeg Quotes

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I like him. I have a weakness for losers. Invalids, foreigners, the fat boy of the class, the ones nobody ever wants to dance with. My heart beats for them. Maybe because I've always known that in some way I will forever be one of them.

Peter Høeg
We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

Peter Høeg
That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.

Peter Høeg
The fear for oneself, that one can do something about. Upon it one can turn the light of awareness. But when one is no longer worrying about oneself, then the fear comes for other people and, after that, for the world. There are no fearless people, only fearless moments.

Peter Høeg
If you want to support others you have to stay upright yourself.

Peter Høeg
Those who were on the inside, the majority that is, for them it had been hard to get his point, mostly they were just pleased that they were on the inside, that they were the fittest. For those on the outside, the fear and abandonment amounts to almost everything; everybody knows that. Understanding is something one does best when one is on the borderline.

Peter Høeg
When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.

Peter Høeg