Quotes by : Karl Ove Knausgård

Asbjørn had a nose, that was his great talent, I had never met anyone with such sureness of taste as....

There is only one thing children find harder to hold back than tears, and that is joy.

And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as....

Until I moved to Stockhold I had felt there was a continuity to my life, as if it stretched unbroken....

All I needed to know, all true knowledge, the only really essential knowledge, was to be found in the....

The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion;....

For life, it's very, very bad to be sensitive, but for a writer, it's very good.

Go somewhere you know nothing about and see what happens.

I had always liked staying the night with other families, having your own room with a freshly made bed,....

In the streets outside everything was still. The hour before five was the only time of day this city....