Macbeth Quotes

“There are no simple paths to justice and purity, only the difficult one.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“We humans are practical. If decisions we made once can’t be changed, we do our best to defend them so that our errors won’t haunt and torment us too much.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“Perhaps we’re just detached sentences in an eternal chaotic babble in which everyone talks and no one listens, and our worst premonition finally turns out to be correct: you are alone. All alone.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“Women understand hearts and how to speak to them. Because the heart is the woman in us. Even if the brain is bigger, talks more and believes that the husband rules the house, it’s the heart that silently makes the decisions. The speech touched your heart and the brain gladly follows.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“Arrogance and insecurity often go together”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“the only person more predictable than a junkie or a moralist is a love-smitten junkie and moralist.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“Human ambition will always stretch toward the sun like a thistle and overshadow and kill everything around it.” “Let’s hope so.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“It was possible if you took one day at a time and did the work that was required. Then one day the trains might run again.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“Duncan, a broad-browed bishop’s son and the head of Organized Crime in Capitol, as the new chief commissioner.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“Or is there simply no meaning? Perhaps we’re just detached sentences in an eternal chaotic babble in which everyone talks and no one listens, and our worst premonition finally turns out to be correct: you are alone. All alone.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“Because the heart is the woman in us.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“We never become what we aren’t already”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“I love you above everything on this earth and in the sky above.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“My religion is capitalism and the free market my creed. But it’s everyone’s right to follow their nature and fight for a monopoly and world domination. And society’s duty to oppose us. We’re just playing our roles, Bonus.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“Jeśli rzeczywiście to bogowie sterują dobrymi i złymi czasami, krótkim życiem ludzkim i jego końcem, trzeba się postarać, aby samemu zostać bogiem. To łatwiejsze, niż mogłoby się wydawać. Większości ludzi w osiągnięciu statusu boga przeszkadzają ich własne przesądy, a także to, że stłamszeni lękiem, wierzą w istnienie moralności, zestawu zesłanych z nieba zasad dotyczących wszystkich. Ale te reguły zostały ułożone właśnie przez tych, którzy wmawiają innym, że są bogami, i w dziwny sposób służą one akurat tym właśnie bogom. No cóż. I dobrze, nie wszyscy mogą być bogami, poza tym każdy bóg potrzebuje wiernych wyznawców.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“Macbeth breathed deeply and calmly. And what if death came now? It would of course be a meaningless end, but isn't that the case with all ends? We're interrupted in mid-sentence in the narrative about ourselves, and the end hangs in the air, with no meaning, no conclusion, no unravelling final act. A short echo of the last, semi-articulated word and you're forgotten. Forgotten, forgotten, not even the biggest statue can change that. The person you were, the person you really were, disappears faster than concentric rings in water. And what was the point of this short, interrupted guest appearance? Of playing along as best you can, seizing the pleasures and happiness life has to offer while it lasts? Or leaving a mark, changing the direction of things, making the world a slightly better place before you yourself have to leave it? Or perhaps the point is to reproduce, to put more suitable small creatures on the earth in the hope that humans will at some point become the demi-gods they imagine they are? Or is there simply no meaning? Perhaps we're just detached sentences in an eternal chaotic babble in which everyone talks and no one listens, and our worst premonition finally turns out to be correct: you are alone. All alone.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“Maybe not, but that's the way some people are. They desire power itself more than what it can give them. They'd rather own a worthless tree than the edible fruit that grows on it. Just so that they can point to it and say, "That's mine." And then cut it down.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“If you want to achieve your aims you have to be able to renounce what you love. If the person you climb with to reach the peak weakens, you have to either encourage him or cut the rope.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“If a woman is to get what she wants, she has to think and act like a man and not consider the family. Her own or others'.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“The desire to be loved and the ability to love, which give humans such strength, are also their Achilles' heel. Give them the prospect of love and they move mountains; take it from them and a puff of wind will blow them over.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“Women understand hearts and how to speak to them. Because the heart is the woman in us. Even if the brain is bigger, talks more and believes that the husband rules the house, it’s the heart that silently makes the decisions.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“do you know what is lonelier than never having anyone? It is believing you had someone, but then it turns out that the person you thought was your closest friend never was.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“The cold was eating into his body, and he coughed. His lungs. He couldn’t stand the sun and he couldn’t stand the cold. What did God actually mean by sending someone like him to earth, a lonely suffering heart without armor, a mollusk without a shell?”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“Life doesn’t give the likes of us that many opportunities, darling. We have to grasp the few that offer themselves.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“Hayat elinizdeki kartlarla oynadığınız ya da pes ettiğiniz bir oyundur.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“It may be easier to be a croupier and observer than a participant, with all the risk and strong emotions involved, sir.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“opportunities don’t offer themselves,” Tourtell said. “They have to be created and then grasped.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“A balance of terror. That’s what allows people to sleep at night.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“Amen,” Duff said, getting up. “You women don’t understand that we men don’t change. Not when we discover love, not when we realize we’re going to die. Never.”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth

“call”
― Jo Nesbø, Macbeth