Hotel Silence Quotes

“All suffering is unique and different,” she said once, “and therefore it can’t be compared. Happiness, on the other hand, is similar.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

“The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

“Then a generation will grow up without any memory of it. Then there’ll be the danger of a new war.” She falls silent. “That won’t be for another ten years yet, though,” she adds, “because that’s how long it takes to create a new generation of men.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

“At our latitudes people mostly kill themselves in the spring. People can’t bear the idea of the earth renewing itself. Of everything starting anew except themselves.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

“The only way to continue is to pretend we lead a normal life. To pretend everything is okay. To shut one’s eyes to the destruction.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

“Sorrow is like a piece of glass in the throat,” she says.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

“There are so many voices in the world and none of them is without meaning”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

“My unhappiness is at best inane when compared to the ruins and dust that lie outside my window.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

“don’t believe everything you think,”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

“We need to calculate the damage caused by the people who profit from war and make them pay for it,” I hear her continue. “That way they would understand that war is much more expensive than peace. In any case, the only language they understand is money,” she adds.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

“I am a watercolor. I wash off”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

“We who are in the know and do nothing are the guilty ones.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

“Dad, don't believe everything you think.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Ör

“It takes only one sentence to blow up a village. Two sentences to destroy the world.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

“In the land of death there isn’t the same urgency to die.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

“Ponieważ dzisiaj nie umrę, muszę coś zjeść.”
― Audur Ava Olafsdottir, Hotel Silence

“W kraju ogarniętym śmiercią jakoś nie czuć potrzeby umierania.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Ör

“I can’t read books anymore,” I hear him say. “When I was a boy I read a lot, but then I stopped with the war.” He hesitates again. “It takes only one sentence to blow up a village. Two sentences to destroy the world.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

“When did I stop thinking about clouds?”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

“Some people don’t follow you all the way,” she added.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

“I’ve passed the dying age of artists.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

“Since you came out of your mother’s womb there have been 568 wars,” says the voice from the armchair.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

“Yükseklere ne kadar tırmanırsak, uçamayanların gözünde o kadar küçük görünürüz.”
― Audur Ava Ólafsdottir, Hotel Silence

“Wszystkie kobiety kogoś straciły: mężów, ojców, synów lub braci. Dzieci straciły ojców i starszych braci. Ci, którzy przeżyli, potrafili ręce, nogi, różne części ciała. (...) Potem dorośnie nowe pokolenie, które nie będzie tego pamiętać. Wtedy może zacząć się kolejna wojna.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Ör

“Zamiast rezygnować z istnienia, zrezygnuj z siebie i stań się kimś innym.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Ör

“- Wiesz, że człowiek to jedyne zwierzę, które płacze?
Uśmiecha się od ucha do ucha.
- Nie, tego nie wiedziałam. Myślałam, że jest jedynym zwierzęciem, które się śmieje.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Ör

“The light from the stars needs time”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

“Despite the fear, I still clearly remember the stars at night. And the moon too, yes.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence

“I wanted to study history,” he says, “that’s if I’d gone to college. But ever since I realised that it’s only written by the victors, I don’t want to anymore.”
― Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Hotel Silence