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 every…

- Harry Mulisch

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

- Harry Mulisch

In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A mother with…

- Harry Mulisch

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

- Harry Mulisch

I'm afraid love is just a word.

- Harry Mulisch

Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's hard to imagine. For the image implies that…

- Harry Mulisch

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

- Harry Mulisch

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

- Harry Mulisch

I never understood how anyone could feel small compared with the universe. After all, man knows how overwhelmingly large it is, and a few others thin…

- Harry Mulisch