Peter Høeg Quotes About Awareness

Quotes about: Awareness

• I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.

  Peter Høeg

  Single, Loneliness, Blessing

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

• Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of 45 percent fear of not being accepted, 45 percent manic hope that this time the fear will be put to shame and a modest 10 percent frail awareness of the possibility of love. I don't fall in love any more. Just like I don't get the mumps.

  Peter Høeg

  Falling In Love, Shame, Awareness

• The fear for oneself, that one can do something about. Upon it one can turn the light of awareness. But when one is no longer worrying about oneself, then the fear comes for other people and, after that, for the world. There are no fearless people, only fearless moments.

  Peter Høeg

  Fear, Light, People

  Peter Høeg (2013). “Borderliners: A Novel”, p.21, Macmillan

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