Quotes from Par Lagerkvist

Snart finns ej längre land, ej stad, där du trygg är, och ingen frågar vad det innebär.

En flykting, jagad som ett djur fast kungalik. En konung över folk i bur och folk av lik.

I have seen God, as you have," he added after a time. "I have met him, and the meeting has filled my soul with horror." The old woman was quite hidden from him in the darkness. But he heard her say in a low, almost toneless voice: "There is no joy in seeing God.

Beyond the gods, beyond all that falsifies and coarsens the world of holiness, beyond all lies and distortion, all twisted divinities and all the abortions of human imagination, there must be something stupendous which is inaccessible to us. Which, by our very failure to capture it, demonstrates how inaccessible it is. Beyond all the sacred clutter the holy thing must exist. That I believe, of that I am certain.