The Rabbit Factor Quotes

“Only the unborn are happy.”
― Antti Tuomainen, The Rabbit Factor

“I don’t need to know how other people are doing. I don’t want to know what they’re thinking, what they’ve done or how they experience things. I don’t want to know what they are planning, their hopes and aspirations. So I don’t ask.”
― Antti Tuomainen, The Rabbit Factor

“I was more of the belief that we don’t have to go out of our way to find difficulties in this life; before long, they will find us.”
― Antti Tuomainen, The Rabbit Factor

“And there is no logic anywhere because nobody seems to need such a thing.”
― Antti Tuomainen, The Rabbit Factor

“Life isn’t a loan; it is a payment fraud.”
― Antti Tuomainen, The Rabbit Factor

“Who was that man?’ I ask. Lizard Man answers almost immediately: ‘The last mathematician.”
― Antti Tuomainen, The Rabbit Factor

“Look at the choices we make. If we are healthy, we make ourselves ill by smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and over-eating. If we want to bring about societal change, we vote for options that make our situation worse. When we should be thinking about what is rational, people start talking about how they feel. The most important thing is making sure that nothing rational accidentally happens. The most successful people are those who talk the least sense and blame everybody else for it.”
― Antti Tuomainen, The Rabbit Factor

“Life isn’t a loan; it is a payment fraud. It is a project, lasting on average seventy-five years, whose sole aim is to maximise our own stupidity.”
― Antti Tuomainen, The Rabbit Factor

“A fanciful and unrealistic approach to the laws of probability makes people try their luck in situations that have nothing to do with luck – be it personal relationships or making a quick buck. For this reason, I didn’t gamble in any way, shape or form. To me it was like swimming in a pool half filled with sharks: though the sharks only took up half the pool, it was still their pool.”
― Antti Tuomainen, The Rabbit Factor

“Time passes.
Although, time never does anything else. This is a one-way street. In one of the definitions of time that I have read somewhere – the continuous and essentially irrevocable progression of existence and events from the past to the future via the present moment – my attention is drawn to the word ‘irrevocable’. For this reason alone, time should come with a warning label.”
― Antti Tuomainen, The Rabbit Factor

“Life isn’t a loan; it is a payment fraud. It is a project, lasting on average seventy-five years, whose sole aim is to maximise our own stupidity. And yet, that’s exactly what we seem to crave. Look at the choices we make. If we are healthy, we make ourselves ill by smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and over-eating. If we want to bring about societal change, we vote for options that make our situation worse. When we should be thinking about what is rational, people start talking about how they feel. The most important thing is making sure that nothing rational accidentally happens. The most successful people are those who talk the least sense and blame everybody else for it. One plus one is not two, Juhani; depending on the day and who is speaking it can be whatever the hell you want it to be.”
― Antti Tuomainen, The Rabbit Factor

“The most successful people are those who talk the least sense and blame everybody else for it.”
― Antti Tuomainen, The Rabbit Factor

“Time passes. Although, time never does anything else.”
― Antti Tuomainen, The Rabbit Factor

“I know what home renovations are really like. They cost twice as much as the original quote and take twice as long as was originally intended.”
― Antti Tuomainen, The Rabbit Factor

“Even as a child I saw mathematics as the key. People betrayed us, numbers did not.”
― Antti Tuomainen, The Rabbit Factor

“If we want to bring about societal change, we vote for options that make our situation worse.”
― Antti Tuomainen, The Rabbit Factor

“I have problems, and finding a solution to those problems is literally a question of life and death.”
― Antti Tuomainen, The Rabbit Factor

“The accounting and financial discrepancies were foremost in my mind, getting to the bottom of them was my top priority. Not this kind of … what exactly? I didn’t know, specifically, generally or even vaguely. And why was I still standing there, still looking at Laura Helanto’s eyes?”
― Antti Tuomainen, The Rabbit Factor

“I just realised I haven’t asked what you do for a living.’ Laura’s words brought me back to the office. ‘I am an actuary,’ I said. ‘Well, I gave my notice two weeks ago.’ ‘Because of YouMeFun?’ I shook my head. ‘I didn’t know about this park at the time. I resigned because I couldn’t stand watching my workplace turn into a playground. Then I inherited one.’ Was Laura Helanto smiling? I didn’t think I’d said anything amusing. She had raised a hand in front of her mouth. When she lowered it again, her expression was neutral.”
― Antti Tuomainen, The Rabbit Factor