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Top 15 Tarjei Vesaas Quotes (2025 Update)

Tarjei Vesaas Quote: “Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.”

1. “Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.”

— Tarjei Vesaas

Tarjei Vesaas Quote: “What you want most you push away from you. You want more than you care to admit.”

2. “What you want most you push away from you. You want more than you care to admit.”

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Tarjei Vesaas Quote: “Bewilderment increases in the presence of the mirrors.”

3. “Bewilderment increases in the presence of the mirrors.”

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Tarjei Vesaas Quote: “Four eyes full of gleams and radiance beneath their lashes, filling the looking-glass. Questions shooting out and then hiding again. I don’t know: Gleams and radiance, gleaming from you to me, from me to you, and from me to you alone – into the mirror and out again, and never an answer about what this is, never an explanation.”

4. “Four eyes full of gleams and radiance beneath their lashes, filling the looking-glass. Questions shooting out and then hiding again. I don’t know: Gleams and radiance, gleaming from you to me, from me to you, and from me to you alone – into the mirror and out again, and never an answer about what this is, never an explanation.”

— Tarjei Vesaas

Tarjei Vesaas Quote: “They were floating, almost at one with the darkness, reflecting no light. Their footsteps could not be heard. But their breathing could, and perhaps the heart. They mingled with other almost inaudible nocturnal stirrings, like a small vibration in long wires.”

5. “They were floating, almost at one with the darkness, reflecting no light. Their footsteps could not be heard. But their breathing could, and perhaps the heart. They mingled with other almost inaudible nocturnal stirrings, like a small vibration in long wires.”

— Tarjei Vesaas

Tarjei Vesaas Quote: “The pine needles stretch their tongues and sing an unfamiliar nocturnal song. Each tongue is so small that it cannot be heard; together the sound is so deep and powerful that it could level the hills if it wished.”

6. “The pine needles stretch their tongues and sing an unfamiliar nocturnal song. Each tongue is so small that it cannot be heard; together the sound is so deep and powerful that it could level the hills if it wished.”

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Tarjei Vesaas Quote: “The darkness at the sides of the road. It possesses neither form nor name, but whoever passes here knows when it comes out and follows after and sends shudders like rippling streams down his back.”

7. “The darkness at the sides of the road. It possesses neither form nor name, but whoever passes here knows when it comes out and follows after and sends shudders like rippling streams down his back.”

— Tarjei Vesaas

Tarjei Vesaas Quote: “Fear can resemble a crackling sound in a frozen ditch.”

8. “Fear can resemble a crackling sound in a frozen ditch.”

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Tarjei Vesaas Quote: “It was this the palace and the river had been waiting for. She had known it all along. Now it would crash. They would stand out on top, she had drawn them all with her into this horror. Gaping cracks would open beneath their feet, the palace would totter and fall forward under the pressure of the water with all of them on top of it, down into the seething channel, and that would be the end. She had known it all along, ever since the moment the men stood there with their sombre song of sorrow.”

9. “It was this the palace and the river had been waiting for. She had known it all along. Now it would crash. They would stand out on top, she had drawn them all with her into this horror. Gaping cracks would open beneath their feet, the palace would totter and fall forward under the pressure of the water with all of them on top of it, down into the seething channel, and that would be the end. She had known it all along, ever since the moment the men stood there with their sombre song of sorrow.”

— Tarjei Vesaas

Tarjei Vesaas Quote: “The promise was a strong tie, hard, but I knew where I stood. If it’s gone, I don’t know where I am. When there’s a strong scent in the spring twilight, I know least of all.”

10. “The promise was a strong tie, hard, but I knew where I stood. If it’s gone, I don’t know where I am. When there’s a strong scent in the spring twilight, I know least of all.”

— Tarjei Vesaas

Tarjei Vesaas Quote: “Her words seemed like fences alongside the road to school; it was difficult to climb over them, and they led straight to school.”

11. “Her words seemed like fences alongside the road to school; it was difficult to climb over them, and they led straight to school.”

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Tarjei Vesaas Quote: “I say again, you must feel you are freed. It’s not right for you to go on as you are. It’s not like you. You’re a different person. Don’t answer. It’s not meant to be answered. But it’s like the gleaming of stars in a well. And no explanation.”

12. “I say again, you must feel you are freed. It’s not right for you to go on as you are. It’s not like you. You’re a different person. Don’t answer. It’s not meant to be answered. But it’s like the gleaming of stars in a well. And no explanation.”

— Tarjei Vesaas

Tarjei Vesaas Quote: “Was this happiness? Happiness had come to him on a bare, rocky island, without any kind of warning. He hadn’t done anything to bring it about. He could even make sharp-witted remarks.”

13. “Was this happiness? Happiness had come to him on a bare, rocky island, without any kind of warning. He hadn’t done anything to bring it about. He could even make sharp-witted remarks.”

— Tarjei Vesaas

Tarjei Vesaas Quote: “She was ready for sleep; she was even warm as well. It was not cold in here at any rate. The pattern in the ice wall danced in the room, the light shone more strongly. Everything that should have been upright was upside-down – everything was piercingly bright. Not once did she think this was strange; it was just as it should be. She wanted to sleep; she was languid and limp and ready.”

14. “She was ready for sleep; she was even warm as well. It was not cold in here at any rate. The pattern in the ice wall danced in the room, the light shone more strongly. Everything that should have been upright was upside-down – everything was piercingly bright. Not once did she think this was strange; it was just as it should be. She wanted to sleep; she was languid and limp and ready.”

— Tarjei Vesaas

Tarjei Vesaas Quote: “Isn’t it odd that you only become clever when it’s too late?”

15. “Isn’t it odd that you only become clever when it’s too late?”

— Tarjei Vesaas

Tarjei Vesaas Quote: “They themselves have lent it life; light and life to the dead block of ice, and to the silent time that follows midnight. Before they came the waterfall had been roaring, despondent and unconcerned, and the colossus of ice had been merely death, completed and mute. They did not know what they had brought with them before they were ensnared by the play between what has been and what is to come.”

16. “They themselves have lent it life; light and life to the dead block of ice, and to the silent time that follows midnight. Before they came the waterfall had been roaring, despondent and unconcerned, and the colossus of ice had been merely death, completed and mute. They did not know what they had brought with them before they were ensnared by the play between what has been and what is to come.”

— Tarjei Vesaas

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