Life Quotes by Werner Herzog

12 Life quotes by Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog delivers twelve stark, poetic lines that stare down the raw edges of existence. His voice, both unsettling and beautiful, invites you to confront the wild, untamed side of living.

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Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.

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Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.

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I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and…

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I live my life outside of the glitz and glamour of the red carpet events, and so you'll never see me there.…

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Without dreams we would be cows in a field, and I don't want to live like that. I live my life or…

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Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell…

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Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite…

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I have been in lots of very intense life situations. I have been shot at, and I have been hungry, and I…

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Because you're delegated to a cook book recipe and you slavishly and pedantically rely on it while you're shooting and you're not…

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You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't…

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I doubt that VR will really replace the quality of books. If you want to go into let's say the Prado in…

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“Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train…

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