Swedish quotes often speak in a low voice, clear as winter air. They balance lagom, enough is best, with the unshowy ethic of Jantelagen, folding sharp insight into modest words. Nature stands close: thaw and frost, sea and pine, long dusk, quick summer. The humor is dry, the solace practical: det ordnar sig without bravado. Silence is not emptiness but listening. Even rebellion tends to be patient, crafted like a well-made chair. Expect tenderness toward work, kin, and the fragile light that returns.
"Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges"
"The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned"
"God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason"
"The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me"
"That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death"
"To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science"
"Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day"
"The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark"
