Quotes by : J.M. Coetzee

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.....

What more is required than a kind of stupid, insensitive doggedness, as lover, as writer, together with....

I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as stupid....

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

Well, that is what you risk when you fall in love. You risk losing your dignity.

Die Wahrheit wird nicht im Zorn gesprochen. Die Wahrheit, wenn sie denn gesprochen wird, wird im Geist....

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....

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise....

Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is....