“He felt light, lighter than ever in all his years. He had severed all relationships. It occurred to him that he had been alone for years. He had been alone since that moment when desire had ceased between his woman… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
“Never yet has such furious movement brought in its train such slowness in the passage of time. Everything is spinning, only time stands still.… — Joseph Roth Copy Share
“Above all there's a lack of personal discipline, manners, decorum, natural discretion. If everyone causes their own individual catastrophes, how can there fail to… — Joseph Roth Copy Share
“The good man believed that shortsighted people were also deaf and that their spectacles would become clearer if their ears heard more sharply.” — Joseph Roth Copy Share
A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know… — Joseph Roth Copy Share
“The world to come will be like this triangular railroad junction, raised to some unknown power. The earth has lived through several evolutionary stages… — Joseph Roth Copy Share
“[O]ur relationship with nature has become warped. You see, nature has acquired a purpose where we are concerned. Its task is to amuse us.… — Joseph Roth Copy Share
That is originally why the concept evolved to include accessories. We found that furniture sells better when you show it with accessories. — Joseph Roth Copy Share
That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be… — Joseph Roth Copy Share
“Somebody cracks a joke, a whole row laughs, one witticism sets off another, and, like matches, they flare up and burn down.” — Joseph Roth Copy Share
“A skyscraper is the incarnate rebellion against the supposedly unattainable; against the mystery of altitude, against the otherworldliness of the cerulean.” — Joseph Roth Copy Share
“Of course the merchandise appears to be cheaper. Because where there are so many things close together, they can hardly help not thinking of… — Joseph Roth Copy Share
Although the noise of the chattering clientele is much more significant than the topics of their chatter, it does finally constitute that type of… — Joseph Roth Copy Share
“The weeping willows, on the other hand, are evocative of death. They are a little contrived, a little exaggerated, still green in the middle… — Joseph Roth Copy Share
A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about. — Joseph Roth Copy Share
“Because human nature will not deny its weaknesses, even where it is seemingly in the process of overcoming them.” — Joseph Roth Copy Share
