More Quotes by J. M. Coetzee
You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins.
Was it serious? I don't know. It certainly had serious consequences.
I’m going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.
Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?
Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.
A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.
When all else fails, philosophize.
I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.
Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.
Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.
