A New Name Quotes

“God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that’s why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can’t notice him, because he is the foundation in a person, or the abyss, you can call it whatever you want,”
― Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII

“God hides in silence, I think, and also in love,”
― Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII

“when I was growing up believed it, believed in the literal meaning of what they said, in God a father who lived up in the sky somewhere, who was all-powerful and who used that power to even exterminate millions of Jews, I think, but those who think of God like that are truly sinning, misusing God’s name, or maybe they’re not, they don’t know any better, and I shouldn’t judge them, because judge not lest ye be judged, as is written, but I can’t help it, I think it’s blasphemous to think like that, and the people who believe in the God they told us about when I was growing up in Barmen believe in a false idol, they’re misusing God’s name, pure and simple, and may God forgive them, and he does, for God’s grace is so all-encompassing”
― Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII

“and then no one says anything and Sigve puts the bag of rolls down on the kitchen counter and then he says that he’s going to still be living in this little old house the rest of his days, but he didn’t pay Asle enough for the painting, he says and he takes out a few banknotes and hands them to Asle and he says thank you for painting a picture of my house and there’s a kind of embarrassing silence, and it’s as if Sigve is sorry he took the picture, because”
― Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII

“pienso, y quizá quienes estén más cerca de Dios sean los pobres de espíritu, aquellos que no se hacen ideas sobre Dios, porque ellos heredarán el reino de Dios,”
― Jon Fosse, Un nuevo nombre. Septología VI-VII

“los grandes artistas marcan una diferencia, con su arte particular, absolutamente particular, introducen algo nuevo en el mundo, pues sí, una nueva manera de mirar desconocida hasta entonces, y cuando uno de esos artistas concluye su obra el mundo tiene otro aspecto,”
― Jon Fosse, Un nuevo nombre. Septología VI-VII

“yes I do believe in a communion of all people who have been freed from their evil, who have become their own nothingness, who have become the part of God that is inside them,”
― Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII