Pascal Mercier, Night Train To Lisbon Quotes

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?

Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.

Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.

Human beings can't bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves.

You can never have for yourself someone who isn't on good terms with himself.