The Nothing Quotes

“I am dust and my story ends here.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“The mad were put in asylums, but the sane are worse off in their offices.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“Yaşlı ve hasta olduğum, spermin tamamen tükendiği ve vaziyetin daha da kötüleşmesine hiç ihtiyaç duymadığım bir gece o sesleri tekrar duyuyorum”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“Act – make an event. Smash the coordinates and see where the smithereens fly. Let in the madness, and be sure to be a danger to oneself and others. Too much thinking turns you into that fool Hamlet.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“Transgression affirms the very rules it intends to flout. Nothing supports the norm like deviation.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“Intelligence and effort can be no compensation for ugliness.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“Those magical fucks, when everything else falls away.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“Growing old isn’t for pussies.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“Sex is like art: if you know what you’re doing, you don’t know what you’re doing.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“A monster is someone who’s being monstered.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“You see people truly when they enjoy the most.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“I don’t like being left for long struggling with my dangerous self.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“Nothing consoles like the blues.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“I have learned that the libido, like Elvis and jealousy, never dies. I know copulators of eighty-five. Who said you need an erection, a body or an orgasm for sex?”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“The truth is always a surprise.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“Suffering loses its horror if the victim can find a way to enjoy it.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“Religion tells you everything when there is disarray.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“Narcissism is our religion. The selfie stick is our cross, and we must carry it everywhere.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“Narcissism is our religion. The selfie stuck is our cross, and we must carry it everywhere.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“Praise someone ones and they are yours forever.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“Krivcu mozes da radis sta ti padne na pamet.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“Starenje nije za slabice.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“Erosova masinerija sastavlja i rastavlja, obnavlja u coveku zudnju za zivotom.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“Ali isto tako sam i shvatio da prestupnistvo samo ucvrscuje pravila koja pokusava da prekrsi. Nista ne osnazuje normu kao odstupanje od nje.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“NIkad se nisam zamajavao nacelima vernosti ili okovima tradicionalnog. Cestitost je patolosko nasilje a dobrota prepreka.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“Istina nas uvek iznenadi.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“Nije li erotika neutaziva glad koja samu sebe pothranjuje?”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“Tisina je, a tisina je glasan zvuk.”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing

“Doesn’t civilisation mean keeping your temper when there is no reason for restraint?”
― Hanif Kureishi, The Nothing