Maja Lunde > Quotes

“I needed seven hours of sleep. At least. I've always envied those who don't need much sleep. Those who wake up after five hours and are ready to preform at their best. They're the ones who really go far in life, I've heard.”
― Maja Lunde, Bienes historie

“We are nothing without passion.”
― Maja Lunde, The History of Bees

“Without knowledge we are nothing. Without knowledge we are animals. After that I became more focused. I did not want to learn solely for the sake of learning, I wanted to learn to understand.”
― Maja Lunde, The History of Bees

“Because this was what education was actually about, defying the nature in oneself.”
― Maja Lunde, The History of Bees

“You do know he loves to write. He always has.”
“I love Star Wars. Haven’t become no Jedi, though.”
― Maja Lunde, The History of Bees

“In the winter four hundred whales were beaches in New Zealand — they couldn’t leave because they waited for each other. The smallest whales could have managed it, at high tide they could have swum away, but they stayed, never abandoned their parents, stayed with the pod, dying with the others instead.”
― Maja Lunde, The End of the Ocean

“Muistatko sateen äänen?" kysyin.
"Muistan", hän sanoin. Sitten hän mietti. "En.”
― Maja Lunde, The End of the Ocean

“Without knowledge we are nothing.without knowledge we are animals.”
― Maja lunde , The History of Bees

“It is strange—no, surreal, surreal is the word—that I’m one of them, the old people, when I am still so completely myself through and through, the same person I have always been. Whether I am fifteen, thirty-five, or fifty, I am a constant, unchanged mass. Like the person I am in a dream, like a stone, like one-thousand-year-old ice. My age is disconnected from me. Only when I move does its existence become perceptible—then it makes itself known through all its pains, the aching knees, the stiff neck, the grumbling hip.”
― Maja Lunde, The End of the Ocean

“Um in der Natur und mit der Natur zu leben, müssen wir uns von der eigenen Natur entfernen.”
― Maja Lunde, The History of Bees

“Nauczycielka nie znała książki, ale zafascynowała się nią podobnie jak ja. Odczytywała na głos różne fragmenty. Czytała o wiedzy, o działaniu niezgodnym z instynktem, ponieważ człowiek jest przekonany, że wie lepiej. Że aby żyć w naturze, z naturą, musimy okiełznać naturę w nas samych. A także o wartości wykształcenia. Bo o to właśnie chodzi w wykształceniu - by tłumić naturę w sobie".”
― Maja Lunde, The History of Bees

“لم تستطع أن تبقي أصابعها بعيدة عنه؛ بعد أن تراكمت أشهرٌ من الحنين -إليه- في يديها.”
― Maja Lunde, The History of Bees

“- No to w takim razie jak opisałbyś mnie? - spytał Tom.
- Ciebie?
- Tak. Co ja lubię? W czym jestem dobry? Czego się boję?
- Ty jesteś moim synem - rzekłem. Tom westchnął.”
― Maja Lunde, Binas historia

“He'd started walking late, not having the necessary restlessness inside of him.”
― Maja Lunde, The History of Bees

“She read about knowledge. About acting against one’s instincts, because one knows better, about how in order to live in nature, with nature, we must detach ourselves from the nature in ourselves.”
― Maja Lunde, The History of Bees

“Pelo visto, era lindo entre eles, no início, nos primeiros anos, mas depois ficou feio. Nada é mais feio que algo que já foi lindo.”
― Maja Lunde, The End of the Ocean

“I was standing. I never sat down. Stood and walked, running a marathon in captivity.”
― Maja Lunde, The History of Bees

“Så var det hela tiden, det var hon som fattade de stora besluten, du vet, åt honom, åt mig, åt alla, hon styrde med händerna hon strök över förklädet, med sina missbelåtna suckar och uppmuntrande leeden... eller också var det inte hon heller, det kanske var förväntningarna de kände från omvärlden men i själva verket skapade själva.”
― Maja Lunde, The End of the Ocean

“Nothing stopped the water. You could follow it from the mountain to the fjord, from the snow that fell from the clouds and settled on the peaks, to the mist that rose above the ocean and again became clouds.”
― Maja Lunde, The End of the Ocean

“Ako môže niekto vlastniť niečo, čo jednoducho tečie?”
― Maja Lunde

“Vatten har i sig ingen färg, det är omvärlden omkring som sätter sin färg på det, reflektioner från himlen, från omgivningarna
[...]
Vatten färgas av den botten det täcker.
Vatten speglar världen.”
― Maja Lunde, The End of the Ocean