“Feelings can kill such good hard things as love and hate.” — Heinrich Böll Hard things Copy Share Image
I was born December 21, 1917, in Cologne, on the Rhine, the son of the sculptor and cabinet-maker, Viktor Boell, and his… — Heinrich Boll Born Copy Share Image
Politicians, ideologists, theologians and philosophers try time and again to provide solutions with nothing remaining: prefab solved problems. — Heinrich Boll Again Copy Share Image
Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it, or you don't.… — Heinrich Boll Ambiguous Copy Share Image
Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it or you don't.… — Heinrich Böll Ambiguous Copy Share Image
I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you." "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the… — Heinrich Böll Advantage Copy Share Image
Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union. — Heinrich Boll Books Copy Share Image
The war is not planned. I don't believe that any responsible person plans it. But it's thought as possible. — Heinrich Boll Believe Copy Share Image
I long for the time of no more departures. It has something to do with age, probably. — Heinrich Boll Age Copy Share Image
Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined. — Heinrich Böll Behinds Copy Share Image
It's true and it's easily said that language is material, and something does materialise as one writes. — Heinrich Boll Easily Copy Share Image
“A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.” — Heinrich Böll Black sheep Copy Share Image
Many writers are radical. I am not, because of my age and because of my terrible fear of demagogy. — Heinrich Boll Age Copy Share Image
Because the completion of labour service was a precondition for permission to study at the university, I was able to begin my… — Heinrich Boll Completion Copy Share Image
For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately… — Heinrich Boll Language Copy Share Image
The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the… — Heinrich Boll Education Copy Share Image
My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he… — Heinrich Boll Appreciate Copy Share Image
“One would like to know, for most people, being denied reliable telepathic communication, reach for the phone, which they feel is more… — Heinrich Böll Communication Copy Share Image
“Eine Familie, die keine schwarzen Schafe hat, ist keine charakteristische Familie." ("A family without a black sheep is not a typical family.") ” — Heinrich Böll Black sheep Copy Share Image
A child... never takes time off as a child; time off does not begin until the principles of order have been accepted. — Heinrich Böll Accepted Copy Share Image
I will never forget the moment when I was liberated by the American Army. I will never forget those very young boys… — Heinrich Boll American Copy Share Image
Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined. Actually, every word has a great burden of memories, not… — Heinrich Böll Bed Copy Share Image
“Olvidé mencionar que soy sensible no sólo a la melancolía y a la jaqueca, sino que poseo, además, otro don casi místico:… — Heinrich Böll Boll Copy Share Image
On a visit to Cologne in March 1945, after a heavy bombing, I met hundreds and hundreds of deserters who were squatting… — Heinrich Boll Deep Copy Share Image
Between 1950 and 1951, I worked as a temporary employee in the Cologne Bureau of Statistics. From summer 1951 on, I have… — Heinrich Boll Lived Copy Share Image
“... she said she would not sign any deposition containing the word "amorous" instead of "advances". For her the difference was of… — Heinrich Böll Word Amorous Copy Share Image
An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass. — Heinrich Böll Art Copy Share Image
One ought to go too far, in order to know how far one can go. — Heinrich Böll Know how Copy Share Image
As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to… — Heinrich Boll Countryside Copy Share Image
No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called… — Heinrich Boll Books Copy Share Image
We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man… — Heinrich Boll Day Copy Share Image
