Harry Mulisch Quotes

All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?

That question is too good to spoil with an answer.

If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find death precisely meaningful?

Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.

But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute.

A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.

I'm afraid love is just a word.

Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that was a law of life that held everything together.

All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one ever fell in love with them.