Jostein Gaarder Quotes

“Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is that we’re actually living on a planet in space. For me that’s an extraordinary thought. It’s mind-boggling just to think about the existence of space at all. But there are girls who can’t see the universe for eye liner.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl

“Me dedicó una cálida sonrisa, y esa sonrisa, podría haber derretido el mundo entero, porque si el mundo entero la hubiera visto,
ella habría tenido la fuerza suficiente para acabar con todas las guerras y toda la enemistad del planeta, o al menos habría dado lugar a una larga tregua.”
― Jostein Gaarder

“She sent me a sunny smile, and what a smile, George; it was a smile that could have melted the whole world, because if the whole world had seen it, it would have had the power to stop all wars and hatred on the face of the planet, or at lease there would have been some long ceasefires.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl

“La seule qualité requise pour devenir un bon philosophe est de s'étonner.”
― Citations sur Le Monde de Sophie Jostein Gaarder

“(...)Bo skoro świat istnieje, granice nieprawdopodobieństwa i tak już zostały przekroczone.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl

“But the days are still ours, and we still have many fine moments ahead of us.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl

“Mas ao mesmo tempo eu sabia que, a cada vez que eu abrisse um livro, eu veria um pedacinho desse céu. Sempre que lesse uma frase, saberia um pouco mais do que antes. E tudo o que leio faz o mundo ficar maior, ficando maior eu também.”
― Jostein Gaarder

“I no longer feel the need to see and sense more than I've already experienced. I just want so desperately to hang on what I have.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl

“Donde más cerca de Dios podemos estar es en nuestra propia alma.”
― Plotino

“The truth is that I feel like a ghost already, and I have to catch my breath each time I think about it. I begin to understand why ghosts go in for so much sighing and hooting. It's not to scare their descendants. It's just that they find it so hard to breathe in a time other than their own.
We don't only have a place in existence. We also have an allotted span.
That's the way things are, and all I can do is extrapolate from what's around me now.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl

“She was a stranger. She came from a more beautiful fairytale than ours. But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people sometimes call ‘the monotony of life.’ Until that moment I’d been completely ignorant of such missionary work. I’d thoughts there was only two types people at least. There was the Orange Girl, and there were the rest of us.”
― Jostein Gaarder

“Nelengva šį jausmą aprašyti paprastais žodžiais, bet įsivaizduok pasaulį prieš tai, kai prasidėjo modernizmo epochos šūkaliojimai apie gamtos dėsnius, raidos teorijas, atomus, DNR molekules, biochemiją, nervų ląsteles, prieš tai, kai mūsų planeta pradėjo suktis apie savo ašį, sumažėjo ir tapo tiktai "planeta" visatoje, prieš tai, kai harmoningas žmogaus kūnas buvo suskirstytas į širdį, plaučius, inkstus, kepenis, smegenis, kraujotakos sistemą, raumenis, skrandį ir žarnas. Kalbu apie tuos laikus, kai žmogus buvo tik žmogus, vientisas ir išdidus. Pasaulis tuomet buvo tikras spinduliuojantis stebuklas.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Mergaitė su apelsinais

“Ma la vita è triste e solenne. Ci fanno entrare in un mondo meraviglioso, ci incontriamo, ci salutiamo e percorriamo la stessa strada per un pezzo, poi scompariamo nel medesimo modo assurdo e improvviso in cui siamo arrivati.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World