The Death of Ahasuerus Quotes

“[The stranger] seemed struck by these words as by a thunderbolt. He straightened up, raised his head, and suddenly the man met his gaze, which was unlike any human look he had seen before: a desolate look which seemed to come from another age, another world. Those eyes were like wells which had been sucked dry long, long ago.”
― Pär Lagerkvist, The Death of Ahasuerus

“Beyond the gods, beyond all that falsifies and coarsens the world of holiness, beyond all lies and distortion, all twisted divinities and all the abortions of human imagination, there must be something stupendous which is inaccessible to us. Which, by our very failure to capture it, demonstrates how inaccessible it is. Beyond all the sacred clutter the holy thing must exist. That I believe, of that I am certain.”
― Par Lagerkvist, The Death of Ahasuerus