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.....

As you speak I swear I can hear words being selected, one after another, from the word-box you carry....

What I did not know was how longing could store itself away in the hollows of one's bones and then one....

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

I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical....

I don't know what you do about sex and I don't want to know, but this is not the way to go about it.....

In a minute, in an hour, it will be too late; whatever is happening to her will be set in stone, will....

Asymmetrie [macht] Menschen unglücklich.

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

He would not mind hearing Petrus’s story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more....