Quotes by : J.M. Coetzee

A risk to own anything : a car, a pair of shoes, a packet of cigarettes. Not enough to go around. Not....

Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt,....

In every story there is a silence, some sight concealed, some word unspoken, I believe. Till we have....

What would yield the greater benefit to mankind: if I spent the afternoon taking stock in my dispensary,....

Well, cast your mind back to the books he wrote. What is the one theme that keeps recurring from book....

To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.

Not only may you not enter the state without certification: you are, in the eyes of the state, not dead....

There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment....

Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with....

You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.”“I’m going....