As your perspective of the world increases not only is the pain it inflicts on you less but also its meaning. Understanding the world requires you to…

- Karl Ove Knausgard

We live in the best of worlds. But still, it's like we've lost something on the way to here: a sense of life. I can't know for sure, I might be the o…

- Karl Ove Knausgard

The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one else on the farm gave it a thought,…

- Karl Ove Knausgard

As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

- Karl Ove Knausgard

When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in a process of writing. It's the same thing with re…

- Karl Ove Knausgard

I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations.

- Karl Ove Knausgard

Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know…

- Karl Ove Knausgard

And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only one time, for every…

- Karl Ove Knausgard

I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it’s possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down …

- Karl Ove Knausgard