Asne Seierstad Quotes

We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.

Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them.

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact.

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

Of all spells that could be cast on a nation, that of believing itself invincible was perhaps the one most profitable broken …

Well, there's no guarantee of failure in life like happiness in high school.

When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our best interests, and that falling and dying are for quitters. We live on the innocent and monstrous assurance that we alone, of all the people ever born, have a special arrangement whereby we will be allowed to stay green forever

We think that we are invincible because we are.

Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

I believe people are genuinely good. I don’t like to see the bad in people, so because of that, I could see myself falling into a bad situation. But thankfully, I haven’t yet.

And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.

I'm the only one who still believes in Santa Claus!

Routine feeds the illusion of safety.

I try to believe like I believed when I was five...when your heart tells you everything you need to know.

Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .

I have a lot of things [in me] that are childlike and innocent and sweet.

When you're certain you cannot be fooled, you become easy to fool.

A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.