The Jump Quotes

“If you understand that life is a game, it means that you are a skilled player. You know it's time to let go. Loosen your grip, get up, get off the stage, walk away. Life is a stifling, endless, infamous match. And between the pawn and the king, in the final challenge, there's not that much difference”
― D.H. Landolfi, The Jump

“Writing is therapeutic. There is no better way to get at yourself than through the foreign world you create.”
― D.H. Landolfi, The Jump

“Life is an immense bag inflated with air and I blow into it reason and feeling, substance, matter, flesh, bones, blood, and the body lived and torn to the point of exhaustion to annul the void. Maybe I already have everything inside me, yes maybe I do and I just want a pair of lips to blow into the balloon with me.”
― D.H. Landolfi, The Jump

“You should never look back after you've made a choice, unless you realise you were wrong. And perhaps even then you don't have to retrace your steps. Maybe. Only gypsies and thieves never really go back to where they've been.”
― D.H. Landolfi, The Jump