Famous Jostein Gaarder Quotes

  • It’s not a silly question if you can’t answer it. – Jostein Gaarder

    It’s not a silly question if you can’t answer it.– Jostein Gaarder

  • Everything you know gained from experience – Jostein Gaarder

    Everything you know gained from experience– Jostein Gaarder

  • Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others. – Jostein Gaarder

    Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.– Jostein Gaarder

  • If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can’t ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent. – Jostein Gaarder

    If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can’t ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.– Jostein Gaarder

  • Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy. – Jostein Gaarder

    Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.– Jostein Gaarder

  • I didn’t feel lonely until there was something to yearn for. Loneliness and longing are two sides of the same coin. – Jostein Gaarder

    I didn’t feel lonely until there was something to yearn for. Loneliness and longing are two sides of the same coin.– Jostein Gaarder

  • Was Jesus a christian? – Jostein Gaarder

    Was Jesus a christian?– Jostein Gaarder

  • But the dream of something unlikely has its own special name. We call it hope. – Jostein Gaarder

    But the dream of something unlikely has its own special name. We call it hope.– Jostein Gaarder

  • But if the history of mankind was her own history, in a way she was thousands of years old. – Jostein Gaarder

    But if the history of mankind was her own history, in a way she was thousands of years old.– Jostein Gaarder