Jo Nesbo Quotes, Thoughts and images

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.

Love is a greater mystery than death.

Doubt is faith's shadow.

Love surrounds you like steam in the shower. You can't see the individual drops, but you get warm. And wet. And clean.

There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire.

A rat is neither good nor evil. It does what a rat has to do.

It was a sudden inspiration. But inspiration never came without a reason.

To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside

Evil is not a thing. It cannot take possession of you. It's the opposite; it's a void, an absence of goodness. The only thing you can be frightened of here is yourself.

A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.

Let me say here and now that faith has never done me any good, only doubt. So that is what has become my testament.

As I say, we Norwegians love our woolens, and you can buy some beautiful knitwear in Oslo. They might cost you a bit - but they will last.

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.

The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway.

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

Harry looked at Bellman. He could not help but admire him. The way you admire a cockroach you flush down the toilet and it comes creeping back again and again and in the end it inherits the world.

Good police officers are ugly.

Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance we call morality.

When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It's not that I had this great idea. Actually, in my case, it was a great idea.

What we humans think we know is nothing compared to what we need to believe to numb the fear and pain.

You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.