Hello. I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader and quotes collector. Here is a list of 39 Fredrik Backman quotes that I liked and saved from various books. I hope you enjoy reading them.
Fredrik Backman Quotes
If you can’t depend on someone being on time, you shouldn’t trust ’em with anything more important either.
from A Man Called Ove book by Fredrik Backman
Loving someone is like moving into a house. At first you fall in love with all the new things, amazed every morning that all this belongs to you, as if fearing that someone would suddenly come rushing in through the door to explain that a terrible mistake had been made, you weren’t actually supposed to live in a wonderful place like this. Then over the years the walls become weathered, the wood splinters here and there, and you start to love that house not so much because of all its perfection, but rather for its imperfections. You get to know all the nooks and crannies. How to avoid getting the key caught in the lock when it’s cold outside. Which of the floorboards flex slightly when one steps on them or exactly how to open the wardrobe doors without them creaking. These are the little secrets that make it your home.
from A Man Called Ove book by Fredrik Backman
Do you know what the worst thing about being a parent is? That you’re always judged by your worst moments. You can do a million things right, but if you do one single thing wrong you’re forever that parent who was checking his phone in the park when your child was hit in the head by a swing.
from Anxious People book by Fredrik Backman
The worst thing a divorce does to a person isn’t that it makes all the time you devoted to the relationship feel wasted, but that it steals all the plans you had for the future.
from Anxious People book by Fredrik Backman
Sometimes it’s hard to know who the biggest crooks are, people who rob banks, or the people who run the banks.
from Anxious People book by Fredrik Backman
Humor is the soul’s last line of defense, and as long as we’re laughing we’re alive.
from Anxious People book by Fredrik Backman
What does it take to be a good parent? Not much. Just everything. Absolutely everything.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
Life is so damn, damn, damn tough sometimes that it’s almost unbearable. Even if that’s the way it’s supposed to be.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
Politics is an endless series of negotiations and compromises, and even if the processes are often complicated, the foundations are always simple: everyone wants to be paid, one way or another.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
A leader can carry on leading only as long as someone follows him, and people’s reactions to leadership are always the same: if a decision of yours benefits me, you’re fair, and if the same decision harms me, you’re a tyrant.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
Leadership is a matter of manipulating emotions to achieve results.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
Life is a weird thing. We spend all our time trying to manage different aspects of it, yet we are still largely shaped by things that happen beyond our control.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
Engines give you what you deserve. If you treat them with respect they’ll give you freedom; if you behave like an ass they’ll take it from you.
from A Man Called Ove book by Fredrik Backman
It’s a strange thing, becoming an orphan at sixteen. To lose your family long before you’ve had time to create your own to replace it. It’s a very specific sort of loneliness.
from A Man Called Ove book by Fredrik Backman
You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away.
from A Man Called Ove book by Fredrik Backman
A time comes in every man’s life when he decides what sort of man he’s going to be: the kind who lets other people walk all over him, or not.
from A Man Called Ove book by Fredrik Backman
It is difficult to admit that one is wrong. Particularly when one has been wrong for a very long time.
from A Man Called Ove book by Fredrik Backman
Something inside a man goes to pieces when he has to bury the only person who ever understood him. There is no time to heal that sort of wound.
from A Man Called Ove book by Fredrik Backman
It’s always very easy to declare that other people are idiots, but only if you forget how idiotically difficult being human is.
from Anxious People book by Fredrik Backman
There was a time when a bank was a bank. But now there are evidently “cashless” banks, banks without any money, which is surely something of a travesty? It’s hardly surprising that people get confused and society is going to the dogs when it’s full of caffeine-free coffee, gluten-free bread, alcohol-free beer.
from Anxious People book by Fredrik Backman
Just because you don’t much like life doesn’t necessarily mean you want the alternative.
from Anxious People book by Fredrik Backman
The people we argue with hardest of all are not the ones who are completely different from us, but the ones who are almost no different at all.
from Anxious People book by Fredrik Backman
If there’s one thing modern life and the Internet have taught us, it’s that you should never expect to win a discussion simply because you’re right.
from Anxious People book by Fredrik Backman
Some people are just like that. If there isn’t a war, they start one.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
Parents who divorce, can stop a child believing in eternal love. Parents who stick together for a lifetime can make a child take it for granted instead.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
Grief is the price we pay for love. A broken heart in exchange for a whole one.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
There’s a loser in every relationship. We may not like to admit it, but one of us always gets a little more and one of us always gives up a little more readily.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
If you live with the same person for long enough, you often discover that although you may have had a hundred conflicts at the start of the relationship, in the end you have only one. You keep slipping into the same argument, albeit in different guises.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
Some children never quite manage to escape their parents; they’re guided by their compass, see through their eyes.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
When terrible things happen, most people become waves, but some people become rocks. Waves are tossed back and forth when the wind comes, but the rocks just take a beating, immovable, waiting for the storm to blow over.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
Power is the ability to get other people to do what you want.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
The truth about most people is as simple as it is unbearable: we rarely want what is best for everyone; we mostly want what’s best for ourselves.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
You can always be absolutely certain of one thing when it comes to power: no one who gets their hands on it ever lets go of it voluntarily.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
It’s said that a person’s first thought is the most honest, but that often isn’t true. It’s often just the most stupid. Why else would we have afterthoughts?.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
Unfairness is a far more natural state in the world than fairness.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
At some point almost everyone makes a choice. Some of us don’t even notice it happening, most don’t get to plan it in advance, but there’s always a moment when we take one path instead of another that has consequences for the rest of our lives. It determines the people we will become, in other people’s eyes as well as our own.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
The complicated thing about good and bad people alike is that most of us can be both at the same time.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
If they hate you, you’re doing something right! You’re the best! They’d never hate you this much if you weren’t best!.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman
Sometimes good people do bad things out of good intentions, and sometimes the reverse happens.
from Us Against You book by Fredrik Backman