Harry Mulisch Quotes

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

That question is too good to spoil with an answer.

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

Using someone’s name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.

I’m afraid love is just a word.

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 everything together.

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