Imagine a twelve-year-old-girl.
Imagine her being attacked, raped and murdered.
Take your time.
Then imagine God.

M. Barin, poet

Håkan Nesser


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We are closer to the end of the world than to that minute that has just passed by, because that is lost forever.

Håkan Nesser


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It's not easy being human. Especially when you are tired and overworked all the time... That's when you become inhuman.

Håkan Nesser

Tag: sad-but-true



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The dead are older than the living, he thought. Irrespective of how old they were when they passed over to the other side, they have experienced something which makes them older than any living thing.

Håkan Nesser

Tag: life death



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There are reasons for everything we do.

Håkan Nesser

Tag: life



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The living must look after one another, he thought. The worst possible outcome is to die without having lived.

Håkan Nesser

Tag: life death



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A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.

Håkan Nesser

Tag: morality crime social-norms



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Words and form! We have a totally clear view of the world when we're fourteen years old, maybe sooner. But then we need another fifty years in order to create a language that can express those impressions. And in the mean time, of course, they've faded away.

Håkan Nesser

Tag: philosophical-reflection



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..chaos is the neighbour of God: but everything's usually neat and tidy in hell...

Håkan Nesser

Tag: philosophical



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The ritual works. The forms overcome doubts. We have learned over the centuries to weave meaning around emptiness and pain. A meaning and a pattern. We have been practising that for a very long time.

Håkan Nesser

Tag: philosophy-of-life



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