Bernhard Schlink

“Ne ispada li, onda, da je egzistencijalni umor rezultat premalog, a ne prevelikog angažovanja? Postajemo li umorni usled toga što olakšavamo sebi…

— Bernhard Schlink

Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of…

— Bernhard Schlink

“...if something hurts me, the hurts I suffered back then come back to me, and when I feel guilty, the feelings of…

— Bernhard Schlink

“The truth of what one says lies in what one does.”

— Bernhard Schlink

“When she had fallen asleep on me, and the saw in the yard was quiet, and a blackbird was singing as the…

— Bernhard Schlink

“To anyone ignorant of history, it would be easy to see ways of life in earlier times simply as ways of life…

— Bernhard Schlink

“What is it?' 'Nothing,' he said, and put his arm around her. 'You sighed.' 'I'd like to be further along than I…

— Bernhard Schlink

“But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. Not only had I loved her, I…

— Bernhard Schlink

“I wanted to pose myself both tasks - understanding and condemnation. But it was impossible to do both”

— Bernhard Schlink

Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily..

— Bernhard Schlink

“I had no one to point at. Certainly not my parents, because I had nothing to accuse them of. The zeal for…

— Bernhard Schlink

Sometimes I had the feeling that all of us in his family were like pets to him. The dog you take for…

— Bernhard Schlink

“There are matters one simply cannot get drawn into, that one must distance oneself from, if the price is not life and…

— Bernhard Schlink

She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn't do.…

— Bernhard Schlink

As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.

— Bernhard Schlink

“I've written things about that, about how life's really big decisions aren't right or wrong, it's just that one lives different lives.…

— Bernhard Schlink

“The value of being brave, working hard, saving money keeping order depends on what it's for.”

— Bernhard Schlink

“It was like being a prisoner on death row who survives month after month and becomes accustomed to the life, while he…

— Bernhard Schlink

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

— Bernhard Schlink

“When did you know you were going to be a writer? I knew it when I was young, I forgot it in…

— Bernhard Schlink

So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I…

— Bernhard Schlink

What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the…

— Bernhard Schlink

Bravery is good when the cause is good.

— Bernhard Schlink

I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral…

— Bernhard Schlink

Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and…

— Bernhard Schlink