Torsten Krol > Quotes

“We try, we fail, we try again ... We couldn't stop trying any more than ants can decide to stop building nests. It's what we do. We are a fuck-up and repeat kind of species.

(Foreverman vol.5 - Olympus)”
― Torsten Krol

“Erich, they differ from us only in the limitations imposed upon them by stone, as opposed to iron and steel.”
― Torsten Krol, The Dolphin People

“so let her keep her giant fish with his tail big enough to swat the moon, only a child would believe that kind of stupidness.”
― Torsten Krol, The Secret Book of Sacred Things

“This is the bad thing about being a child, the way any grown-up who wants to can do anything at all and you cannot stop him, being too small.”
― Torsten Krol, The Secret Book of Sacred Things

“Animals that surrender their lives so we might eat and live should be treated with respect,”
― Torsten Krol, The Secret Book of Sacred Things

“That is when the male surrenders his family name for that of the female as proof of his love.”
― Torsten Krol, The Secret Book of Sacred Things

“and the ones who do important work get treated just a little bit different to the rest.”
― Torsten Krol, The Secret Book of Sacred Things

“Death takes the clever and the stupid into his embrace without favour or preference.”
― Torsten Krol, The Secret Book of Sacred Things

“In the old world men bowed down before a god who was made in their image, harsh in his judgements, vengeful and intolerant.”
― Torsten Krol, The Secret Book of Sacred Things

“How wise is the voice of the mute.”
― Torsten Krol, The Secret Book of Sacred Things