If just one of [those people] experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day... Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards.
Jostein GaarderAn answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.
Jostein GaarderWhere both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.
Jostein GaarderA hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.
Jostein GaarderHow terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.
Jostein GaarderLife is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.
Jostein Gaarder