Zitate von Hanif Kureishi

„Selbst die Verwandten der Berühmten [sind] berühmt, denn Ruhm [ist] erblich.“

—  Hanif Kureishi

Der Buddha Aus Der Vorstadt: Roman

„You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.“

—  Hanif Kureishi

Quelle: Intimacy

„At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?“

—  Hanif Kureishi

Quelle: Intimacy: das Buch zum Film von Patrice Chéreau

„Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.“

—  Hanif Kureishi

Quelle: Intimacy: das Buch zum Film von Patrice Chéreau

„Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.“

—  Hanif Kureishi

Quelle: Midnight all Day

„How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.“

—  Hanif Kureishi

Quelle: Intimacy: das Buch zum Film von Patrice Chéreau

„The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.“

—  Hanif Kureishi, buch The Buddha of Suburbia

Quelle: The Buddha of Suburbia

„Love cannot be measured by its duration…“

—  Hanif Kureishi

Quelle: Intimacy: das Buch zum Film von Patrice Chéreau

„Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.“

—  Hanif Kureishi

Quelle: Intimacy: das Buch zum Film von Patrice Chéreau

„I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.“

—  Hanif Kureishi

Quelle: Something to Tell You

„Dear God, teach me to be careless.“

—  Hanif Kureishi

Quelle: Intimacy

„At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others.“

—  Hanif Kureishi

Quelle: Something to Tell You

„Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.“

—  Hanif Kureishi, buch The Buddha of Suburbia

Quelle: The Buddha of Suburbia

„Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. … Why can’t they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity?“

—  Hanif Kureishi

„Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.“

—  Hanif Kureishi

Quelle: Collected Stories

„No amount of promises can guarantee love“

—  Hanif Kureishi

Quelle: Love In A Blue Time

„Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.“

—  Hanif Kureishi, buch The Buddha of Suburbia

Quelle: The Buddha of Suburbia

„What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.“

—  Hanif Kureishi

Quelle: Intimacy: das Buch zum Film von Patrice Chéreau

„… I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes.“

—  Hanif Kureishi

Quelle: The Black Album