The School of Night Quotes

“Our days are open and transparent, but enveloped too by the faintest membrane of time, almost imperceptible when our gaze passes through it to consider a single day on its own. But come another day, and another after that, the membrane will thicken, that which before was as clear as day will then be blurred and faintly obscured; come yet more and only the outlines will be perceptible, until they too recede and dissolve, and what happened inside them will then be hidden from us, sealed away by time.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, The School of Night

“And now I’m here. Although I didn’t plan it, it feels nevertheless as if it had been planned all along and I’d merely followed a path that had been tramped down for me by others. I suppose the word for that feeling is fate.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, The School of Night: A novel

“Do you know what your problem is?’ she said”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, The School of Night

“To convey loneliness by means of language is therefore impossible. Where there is loneliness”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, The School of Night

“There is no reason to be afraid of death – when we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. This, roughly, is how Epicurus put it a long time ago. I tend to think of it as like sharing a flat with a lodger you never see. The flat has two rooms, and two doors. Whenever you go through one door, the lodger goes out by the other.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, The School of Night