--- title: "1 Kept Distance Quotes By Ingeborg Bachmann" description: "1 Kept Distance quotes by Ingeborg Bachmann. Plus more from Ingeborg Bachmann and more Kept Distance sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9e/ingeborg-bachmann-12011_incompatibility_there-was-only-one-hope-she-didn-t-and-w_1319007.jpg" --- > [“There was only one hope she didn't and wouldn't allow herself to hold on to: that if, in almost thirty years, she hadn't found a man, not a single one, who was exclusively significant for her, who had become inevitable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingeborg-bachmann/there-was-only-one-hope-she-didn-t-and-wouldn-t-allow-herself-to-hold/) [Ingeborg Bachmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingeborg-bachmann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9e/ingeborg-bachmann-12011_incompatibility_there-was-only-one-hope-she-didn-t-and-w_1319007.jpg) ## More by Ingeborg Bachmann > [If we had the right words, if we had the language, we would need no weapons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingeborg-bachmann/if-we-had-the-right-words-if-we-had-the-language-we-would-need-no/) [Ingeborg Bachmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingeborg-bachmann/) > [I don't take drugs, I take books.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingeborg-bachmann/i-don-t-take-drugs-i-take-books/) [Ingeborg Bachmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingeborg-bachmann/) > [I myself am a person who has never resigned myself, who is absolutely never resigned, who can’t imagine it at all. I simply observe,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingeborg-bachmann/i-myself-am-a-person-who-has-never-resigned-myself-who-is-absolutely/) [Ingeborg Bachmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingeborg-bachmann/) > [“Nonetheless even in capitulation there is still hope, and this hope of human beings never ends, will never end.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingeborg-bachmann/nonetheless-even-in-capitulation-there-is-still-hope-and-this-hope-of/) [Ingeborg Bachmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingeborg-bachmann/) > [“If I had not immersed myself in books, in stories and legends, in newspapers, in reports, if everything communicable had not grown up in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingeborg-bachmann/if-i-had-not-immersed-myself-in-books-in-stories-and-legends-in/) [Ingeborg Bachmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingeborg-bachmann/) > [“...all of this is such a long and dark and untellable story (untellable as all stories are). Meanwhile, one can only hold onto what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingeborg-bachmann/all-of-this-is-such-a-long-and-dark-and-untellable-story-untellable/) [Ingeborg Bachmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingeborg-bachmann/) > [“...the simple task of getting dressed and undressed was a real strain, but nothing could compare with her addiction to deep sleep...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingeborg-bachmann/the-simple-task-of-getting-dressed-and-undressed-was-a-real-strain/) [Ingeborg Bachmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingeborg-bachmann/) > [I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingeborg-bachmann/i-am-writing-with-my-burnt-hand-about-the-nature-of-fire/) [Ingeborg Bachmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingeborg-bachmann/) > [“Never was there so much magic over things as when you spoke, and never were words so powerful. You could make speech flare up,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingeborg-bachmann/never-was-there-so-much-magic-over-things-as-when-you-spoke-and-never/) [Ingeborg Bachmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingeborg-bachmann/) > [“Hello! It could only have been Andre, but she replaced the receiver instantly, reaching for the tiny, crumpled scrap of paper and tucking it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingeborg-bachmann/hello-it-could-only-have-been-andre-but-she-replaced-the-receiver/) [Ingeborg Bachmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingeborg-bachmann/) > [Silent night, holy night, when the bough flies from the tree and is hung everywhere, when from tables the crusts fly, when the gifts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingeborg-bachmann/silent-night-holy-night-when-the-bough-flies-from-the-tree-and-is/) [Ingeborg Bachmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingeborg-bachmann/) > [“My share, it should be lost.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingeborg-bachmann/my-share-it-should-be-lost/) [Ingeborg Bachmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingeborg-bachmann/) > [“I am a dead man who wanders registered nowhere”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingeborg-bachmann/i-am-a-dead-man-who-wanders-registered-nowhere/) [Ingeborg Bachmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingeborg-bachmann/) > [“As it was all was lost. He was alive, yes, he was alive, he felt this for the first time. But he knew now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingeborg-bachmann/as-it-was-all-was-lost-he-was-alive-yes-he-was-alive-he-felt-this-for/) [Ingeborg Bachmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingeborg-bachmann/) > [“Yaşayacak bir niçin'i bulunan, hemen her nasıla dayanabilir.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingeborg-bachmann/ya-ayacak-bir-ni-in-i-bulunan-hemen-her-nas-la-dayanabilir/) [Ingeborg Bachmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingeborg-bachmann/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kept-distance/ingeborg-bachmann/#itemlist", "name": "1 Kept Distance Quotes By Ingeborg Bachmann", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“There was only one hope she didn't and wouldn't allow herself to hold on to: that if, in almost thirty years, she hadn't found a man, not a single one, who was exclusively significant for her, who had become inevitable to her, someone who was strong and brought her the mystery she had been waiting for, not a single one who was really a man and not an eccentric, a weakling or one of the needy the world was full of - then the man simply didn't exist, and as long as this New Man did not exist, one could only be friendly and kind to one another, for a while. 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