"The Finkler Question" Quotes
A man's life is altered by the death of his wife and his reconnection with a former schoolmate.
fiction | 384 pages | Published in 2010
Quotes
Love is the most un-understandable thing in the world.
I don't have to tell you how much I love you, do I? I don't have to tell you that you're the best thing that's ever happened to me.
It's bad enough having no past, but to have no future, to be nothing but a hole in the air, is ghastly.
You're a joke, aren't you? A walking joke. I don't mean that unkindly. We're all jokes. We live and die for jokes.
The older you get, the more you think about the things you haven't done rather than the things you have.
We're all in a muddle, aren't we? Every last one of us. The whole world's in a muddle.
You have to be careful what you wish for, don't you? The wishing sometimes turns out to be the worst bit.
I don't believe in happiness, do you? I believe in the pursuit of it, the striving for it, the search for it. I don't believe it's an achievable thing.
You have to lose your way to find your way. You have to lose yourself to find yourself.
There's no shame in being beaten. The shame is in not getting up and carrying on.
