Quotes by : Carsten Jensen

They were probably scared of him and so they did what boys do around any object of fear: they went up....

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached....

Is there anything more heartbreaking than drowning in sight of land? Is there a single one of us who....

So you've stopped thinking you're going to die?Oh, I'm more certain of it than ever. But I've stopped....

Nature was neither fair nor unfair. Those terms belonged to the world of men.

Take the sailor," he said. "he signs on to a new ship. He's surrounded by nothing but strangers. Not....

Having a child isn't a deal you strike with life. As I said: a child is a gift. And what remains after....

Her grief was a burden so heavy, he came close to collapsing under it, and yet he couldn't lay it down.....

An unused conscience is no conscience at all.

There was plenty for the eye to feast on, but nothing for the soul. He had a hunger for something that....