Etgar Keret > Quotes

“It's amazing how people can sound like retards when they're talking to their girlfriend, especially if they really love her a lot. Because when you're just fucking someone you make a point of keeping your cool, but when you're really in love - it can sound pretty repulsive.”
― Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout: Stories

“There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall, and those who like to sleep next to the people who push them off the bed.”
― Etgar Keret, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and Other Stories

“For three months,
a person sits and looks at you,
imagining a kiss.”
― Etgar Keret

“He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed like no more than a trap, a maze, not even a maze, just a room that was all walls, no door.”
― Etgar Keret, Gaza Blues

“According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.”
― Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout: Stories

“A word is a lot.”
― Etgar Keret

“His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that of all the things the angel had told him, nothing was true. That he wasn't even an angel, just a liar with wings.”
― Etgar Keret

“I think she cried at my funeral. It's not that I'm conceited or anything, but I'm pretty sure. Sometimes I can actually picture her talking about me to some guy she feels close to. Talking about me dying. About how they lowered me into the grave, kind of shrivelled up and pitiful, like an old chocolate bar. About how we never really got a chance. And afterwards the guy fucks her, a fuck that's all about making her feel better.”
― Etgar Keret, The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God

“Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.”
― Etgar Keret

“Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.”
― Etgar Keret, The Girl on the Fridge

“Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it, and it will die. But leave it to thrive in the soil, untouched, and it will weather both gods and winds. It is born with the soil, and it will live so long as the soil shall live.”
― Etgar Keret

“...but I felt then the same way Nicky did, that I was getting myself more life. Not necessarily a better life, not a life more promising than the one I already had. But because I thought this life was in addition to and not instead of, I devoured it without a second's hesitation.”
― Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout: Stories

“las ansias de llegar a encontrar todos los pensamientos exclusivos y únicos del universo lo apartaron del buen gusto y de toda conducta juiciosa.”
― Etgar Keret, Un Homme Sans Têteet Autres Nouvelles

“Ehud was tall and strong and was always quiet. Lots of people thought that Ehud was quiet because he was stupid. That wasn’t true. He may not have been the smartest kid on the block, but he was no moron either.”
― Etgar Keret, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and Other Stories

“Пристъп на астма

Kогато получиш пристъп на астма, не можеш да дишаш. Koгато не можеш да дишаш, едвам говориш. Изречението ти трае колкото въздухът в дробовете. А той не е много. Някъде от три до шест думи. Осъзнаваш колко всъщност струва една дума. Пресяваш онези, които ти хрумнат. Избираш най-важните. Дори те ти излизат скъпо. Не е като при здравите хора, които изхвърлят навън всички думи, дето чакат в главите им, както ти изхвърляш боклука. Когато някой получи пристъп и каже: “обичам те” или “страшно те обичам” има разлика. Една дума разлика. А една дума е много, защото тя би могла да е „спри” или „инхалатор” или дори „линейка”.”
― Etgar Keret, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and Other Stories

“precisamente ahora empieza en mí un programa muy bonito, pensó para sus adentros la tele, justamente ahora que no hay nadie aquí para verlo.”
― Etgar Keret, Un Homme Sans Têteet Autres Nouvelles

“la causa de casi todo lo que sucede en el mundo es el aburrimiento: los amores, las guerras, los inventos, los estucados de las paredes”
― Etgar Keret, Un Homme Sans Têteet Autres Nouvelles

“el lugar dejado por los temores vino a ocuparlo ahora la expectativa”
― Etgar Keret