The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as "moral indignation," which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him
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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.